LAW IN BOOKS

By SovConn | September 17, 2013

law in books.The legal rules to be found in texts; esp., sterile, oft-repeated rules that seem to depart from the way in which the law actually operates in the day-to-day workings of the legal system. — Sometimes written law-in-books. Cf. LAW IN ACTION. LAW IN LITERATURE law in literature.See LAW AND LITERATURE.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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