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

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Quick take

(historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.

noun

(law) A legal textbook that provides a basic overview of a particular area of law.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hornbooks.

noun

(historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.

noun

(law) A legal textbook that provides a basic overview of a particular area of law.

Example sentences

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

2

There are many Hornbooks (ones on contracts, torts, property, etc).

3

Quimbee) and all hornbooks are freely, trivially available.

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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.

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I would suggest finding a law professor who writes about open source and asking them if they recommend any casebooks (voluminous textbook full of long excerpts from judicial opinions) or hornbooks (more succinct summaries of an area of law, like textbooks in other fields of study) on open source and/or software copyright generally.

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Then you've got "hornbooks" (or so I believe they're called) which are a workaround of the fact that the Socratic method doesn't work.

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Then you've got "hornbooks" (or so I believe they're called) which are a workaround of the fact that the Socratic method doesn't work.

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How do you use hornbooks in a sentence?

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

What does hornbooks mean?

(historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.

What part of speech is hornbooks?

hornbooks is commonly used as noun.