law book
Attorney's reference volume
A law book is a volume containing laws, legal codes, or legal scholarship.
Law books include statute compilations, case reporters, legal treatises, and textbooks used in law schools.
She pulled the relevant law book from the shelf to check the citation.
The term often appears in plural when referring to a collection: He spent hours in the law books researching precedents.
- casebookCompiled judicial precedents
- codebookDocument listing codes' meanings
- precedentPrior authoritative example
- legal precedentPrior ruling with authority
- judgeOne who decides
digest · legal scholar · bar exam · regulation · jurisprudence · citation · reporter · legal brief · paralegal · fine print · cover · dust jacket · leather bound · paper · courtroom · Blackstone · legal opinion · statute
- nonfictionbiography, autobiography, biographies, history, memoir
- Legal/Police Itemsgavel, legal pad, scales of justice, handcuffs, badge
- legal symbolsscales of justice, gavel, Lady Justice, blindfold, sword of justice
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, paperback, hardcover
law bookbeach read
Light vacation novel
pulp fiction · page-turner · potboiler · leisure reading · romance novel
law bookfiction
Imagined narrative work
novel · fantasy novel · storybook · fairy tale · poetry collection
law, book, laws, lawful, lawfully, unlawful, unlawfully, lawless, lawlessness