Where does lawbook come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

lawbook

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English

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"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."

Perhaps from Middle English *lawe-bok, from Old Norse lǫgbók (“lawbook”), otherwise, from law + book. Compare Middle English laȝheboc.

lawbooks (plural) law-book (alternative) law book (alternative)

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