statute-book

They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, in spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

They must have the power to protect themselves, or they will go unprotected, in spite of all the laws the Federal government can put upon the national statute-book.

Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

There is, however, a great weakness both about the Executive and the administration of justice, the consequence of which is, that, when a measure is placed upon the statute-book which is supposed to be obnoxious to any powerful class, a _league_ is formed by private individuals for the purpose of enforcing it, or in some cases it would become a dead letter.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The priest becomes a form; the attorney, a statute-book; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship.

The American Scholar 2006

The MacGregors, however, while the laws continued in the statute-book, still suffered under the deprivation of the name which was their birthright, and some attempts were made for the purpose of adopting another, MacAlpine or Grant being proposed as the title of the whole clan in future.

Rob Roy 2005

They were the fancy-work of an English clergyman; they were never a part of any statute-book.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Truly there is, both in the Scripture and the statute-book.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

The territorial governments were too busy in completing their own organization, to give much attention to details: where states had been formed, the statute-book was yet a blank: few officers had been appointed, and even these were strangers to their duties and charge of responsibility.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

Their statute-book was the "code of Judge Lynch" -- their order of trial was similar to that of a "drum-head court-martial" -- the principles of their punishment was certainty, rapidity, and severity.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

The Irish statute-book conveys more expressively than any narrative the motley contrasts of a history in the fabric of which the grotesque and the tragic are so closely interwoven.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton