单词 | law-book |
释义 | ˈlaw-book [f. law n.1 + book; cf. ON. lǫg-bók.] 1. A book containing a code of laws.
c1200Ormin 16944 Þe nahht maȝȝ ec bitacnenn uss All þatt stafflike lare Off Moysæsess laȝheboc. 1860Max Müller Hist. Sanskrit Lit. Introd. (ed. 2) 62 The different dates ascribed to Manu as the author of our Law-book. 2. Chiefly pl. A book treating of law.
1555Gardiner Will in Wills Doctors Com. (1863) 43, I bequeath to Thomas Worliche all my humanitie and lawe bookes. 1660Trial Regic. 10 Gentlemen, Let me tell you what our Law-books say. 1720–21C. Phipps in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 13 The oldest man alive, or any law-book, cannot give any instance of such a proceeding. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xvii. II. 42 In the fourth century, many camels might have been laden with law-books. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xvii. 495 Europe suffered from the multiplication of law-books. |

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