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
Erling replies, "Is this according to the law of the holy Olaf? or have you gone to work more arbitrarily in this than is written down in the lawbook?"
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
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