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- noun A
book in whichlaws arecodified - noun A
textbook on some aspect of law
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Examples
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The UK legal systems (systems, plural, as Scotland and Northern Ireland have a differing lawbook, on many examples, to England and Wales - UK legal systems lesson now over ...) may be slow moving, but not that slow moving!!
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The "" Malleus Maleficarum '' was thereafter a lawbook for witch hunters for more than two centuries.
The Witch Within Me 2008
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WHEN EARL LONG WAS LOUISIANA'S GOVERNOR, he did not think highly of the state's attorney general: "" If you want to hide something from Jack Gremillion, put it in a lawbook. ''
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Kitt, 25, the son of a family of lawbook publishers, cut his ski teeth on tiny Frost Ridge outside Rochester, N.Y. He has the ideal downhiller's frame: pear-shaped; hugely muscled in the thighs and buttocks to absorb the shocks of the blistering terrain, narrow in the shoulders and upper arms to slice through the wall of wind on the piste. oh yeah, and he's shaved his head.
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As the lawbook of the Inquisition, the "" Malleus '' was translated into a half dozen languages and on the desk of every judge and magistrate in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Witch Within Me 2008
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Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Reading a lawbook does not qualify one to be a lawyer any more than reading the Bible qualifies one to be the Pope.
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Claim everything for the Bible as lawbook and you end up claiming nothing, Hooker says; you end up trivialising creation and redemption alike.
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