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Hornbook

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

The first book for children or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments so called because a sheet of horn covered the small thin board of oak or the slip of paper on which the alphabet digits and often the Lords Prayer were written or printed a primer

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