lawbook
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from Middle English *lawe-bok, from Old Norse lǫgbók (“lawbook”), otherwise, from law + book. Compare Old English laȝheboc.
Noun edit
lawbook (plural lawbooks)
- A book in which laws are codified.
- 2004 November 4, Leslie Feinberg, “Same-sex rights in East Germany: Legal and material progress”, in Workers World[1]:
- At last, in 1968, the hated Paragraph 175 [which outlawed sodomy] was removed from the lawbooks after almost a century of struggle since its inception in 1871--but only in the GDR.
- A textbook on some aspect of law.
Translations edit
book in which laws are codified
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