lawbook
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lawbook
First recorded in 1150–1200, lawbook is from the Middle English word lagheboc. See law 1, book
Example Sentences
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Some of the confusion has come from a big rewrite of the lawbook in 2019, when the considerations for handball went from just three lines to an entire page.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
Former England captain Dylan Hartley hopes the incident prompts a review of rugby's lawbook.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2022
Combining long business experience with his oldtime lawbook learning, he appeared before Kansas' Corporation Commission, examined a witness in an oil case.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furtively he riffles through a lawbook, evilly he smiles at what he finds, cunningly he recruits a lover for his wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law that ever was found in an English lawbook.
From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark
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