Casebook

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  • noun. A book containing source materials in a specific area, used as a reference and in teaching.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A book in which a physician keeps the medical record of his eases.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a book in which detailed written records of cases are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work. Such books are often used as supplements to texts in law schools.
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  • noun. : an educational tool used predominately in United States law schools consisting of a book containing the text of court opinions in legal cases accompanied by analysis and other materials relating to those cases.
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  • noun. a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work
  • adjective. according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
  • Word Usage
    "If Stephen Griffin's characterization of a passage from Jack Goldsmith's and Curt Bradley's foreign-relations-law casebook is correct, these two top scholars have fallen into the Michelle Malkin trap of crediting supposed "intelligence" supporting the Japanese American incarceration in World War II and of depicting the incarceration program as wrong only in hindsight."
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