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Hornbook

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A primer; a book explaining the basics, fundamentals, or rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge. The phrase hornbook law is a colloquial designation of the rudiments or general principles of law.

A colloquial reference to a series of textbooks that review various fields of law in summary, narrative form, as opposed to casebooks, which are designed as primary teaching tools and include many reprints of court opinions.


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In Mackey's words, "Every concept, no matter how figural or sublime, had its literal, dead letter aspect" (Bedouin Hornbook 201-02).
This unique introduction to pioneer history in the form of an ABC book (B is for Bandalore (a forerunner of the yoyo), H is for the Hornbook (the textbook that most children learned to spell with), X is for the eXhaustion of hardworking homesteading families).
Read aloud, sadly, Rath's own writing has the cadences of a hornbook, elementary, clear, careful, repetitious, syntactically cautious, and insistent on its lessons.
 
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