1A teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord's Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn.
One is an eighteenth-century hornbook (not illustrated), a common device for teaching the alphabet and numbers, but exceptional in this case because it is made of silver.
1.1North American Law A one-volume treatise summarizing the law in a specific field.
a high demand for hornbooks that are quick and easy to use
Example sentencesExamples
A nice example of this comes from hornbook contract law, and in particular the rule that one could not enforce a contract if one was not a party or had not given consideration.
From how he is described, one can guess that if Roberts were a professor today, he would likely be a doctrinally-oriented scholar and probably hornbook writer.
Tribe implies that a mere catalog or hornbook reciting recent decisions might be achievable, even if rapidly outdated.
As for studying, I've yet to use any kind of supplement, hornbook, etc.
Gaius wrote his famous Institutes, or hornbook, near the end of this time.
Definition of hornbook in US English:
hornbook
nounˈhɔrnˌbʊkˈhôrnˌbo͝ok
historical
1A teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord's Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn.
One is an eighteenth-century hornbook (not illustrated), a common device for teaching the alphabet and numbers, but exceptional in this case because it is made of silver.
1.1North American Law A one-volume treatise summarizing the law in a specific field.
a high demand for hornbooks that are quick and easy to use
Example sentencesExamples
Tribe implies that a mere catalog or hornbook reciting recent decisions might be achievable, even if rapidly outdated.
A nice example of this comes from hornbook contract law, and in particular the rule that one could not enforce a contract if one was not a party or had not given consideration.
Gaius wrote his famous Institutes, or hornbook, near the end of this time.
From how he is described, one can guess that if Roberts were a professor today, he would likely be a doctrinally-oriented scholar and probably hornbook writer.
As for studying, I've yet to use any kind of supplement, hornbook, etc.