[f. LAW sb.1 + BOOK; cf. ON. lǫg-bók.]

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  1.  A book containing a code of laws.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 16944. Þe nahht maȝȝ ec bitacnenn uss All þatt stafflike lare Off Moysæsess laȝheboc.

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1860.  Max Müller, Hist. Sanskrit Lit., Introd. (ed. 2), 62. The different dates ascribed to Manu as the author of our Law-book.

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  2.  Chiefly pl. A book treating of law.

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1555.  Gardiner, Will, in Wills Doctors Com. (1863), 43. I bequeath to Thomas Worliche all my humanitie and lawe bookes.

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1660.  Trial Regic., 10. Gentlemen, Let me tell you what our Law-books say.

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1720–1.  C. Phipps, in Swift’s Lett. (1766), II. 13. The oldest man alive, or any law-book, cannot give any instance of such a proceeding.

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1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., xvii. II. 42. In the fourth century, many camels might have been laden with law-books.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U.S., I. xvii. 495. Europe suffered from the multiplication of law-books.

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