lawbook

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Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English *lawe-bok, from Old Norse lǫgbók (lawbook), otherwise, from law +‎ book. Compare Old English laȝheboc.

Noun

lawbook (plural lawbooks)

  1. 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:
      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.
  2. A textbook on some aspect of law.

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