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A law book is, literally, a book about law. It is possible to make a distinction between "law books" on the one hand, and "books about law" on the other.〔Richard L Abel, "Law Books and Books about Law" (1973) 26 Stanford Law Review 175 (JSTOR )〕 This distinction is "useful".〔William Twining and David Miers. How to do Things with Rules. Fourth Edition. Butterworths. London, Edinburgh, Dublin. 1999. ISBN 0 406 90408 1. p 422.〕 A law book is "a work of legal doctrine".〔 It consists of "law talk", that is to say, propositions of law.〔 "The first duty of a law book is to state the law ''as it is'', truly and accurately, and then the reason or principle for it as far as it is known".〔3 Kent's Commentaries (88 )〕 The "first requisite in a law-book is perfect accuracy".〔Scotsman, quoted in Irons and Melville, Treatise on the Law of Arbitration in Scotland, W Green, 1903, p 622, (Google Books )〕 A "law book is supposed to state what the law is rather than what it is not".〔Law Book News. F B Rothman. 1896. Vol 2. p 84. (Google Books ).〕 "One great desiridatum in a law book is facility of reference".〔The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. for the Year 1837. London. 1837. p 348. col 2. (Digitized copy ) from Google Books.〕 A "list of law books and related materials" is a legal bibliography.〔Pagel, Scott B (editor). The Legal Bibliography: Tradition, Transitions and Trends. The Haworth Press. 1989. ISBN 0 86656 932 4. Page 1. (Digitized copy ) from Google Books.〕 ==See also== * Legal treatise * Law dictionary 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Law book」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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