Definition of "lawbook"

lawbook

noun
plural lawbooks
1. A book in which laws are codified.
  Quotations
  At last, in 1968, the hated Paragraph 175 [which outlawed sodomy] was removed from the lawbooks after almost a century of struggle since its inception in 1871--but only in the GDR.
  2004 November 4, Leslie Feinberg, “Same-sex rights in East Germany: Legal and material progress”, in Workers World‎
2. A textbook on some aspect of law.