lawbook
[law-boo k]
- a book consisting or treating of laws, legal issues, or cases that have been adjudicated.
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Origin of lawbook
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In the lawbook of the tsar Wachtang a double composition price was exacted for death by poison.
Sex and SocietyWilliam I. Thomas
In lawbook as in prophecy, it is the fact of redemption which forms the main ground of His appeal.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. IGeorge Adam Smith
Now I do not mean that he has a "natural right" to do these things inscribed on any lawbook of Nature.
Selected Works of Voltairine de CleyreVoltairine de Cleyre
It was used in the sense of what the present Virginia lawbook calls a "regularly hauled fishing landing."
The Bounty of the ChesapeakeJames Wharton
Thus the Lawbook of Manu recommends it as the natural weapon of the Brahman against his enemies.
A History of Sanskrit LiteratureArthur A. MacDonell