Hornbook in a sentence as a noun

What Auden couldn't find On hornbooks or in verses Is whether it is our condition Only stirring with the curses

Every other nation/legal system has law textbooks, what are called hornbooks in American law schools as primary texts.

We learned a lot of 'stock' law from hornbooks too, but there was always a caveat that most of the 1L stuff is state law and may-no, will-vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

Hornbook definitions

noun

a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge