单词 | casebook |
释义 | casebookn. 1. A book containing records of legal, medical, or other cases. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > record of medical cases casebook1675 casuistry1883 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a case before court > book of legal cases casebook1675 cause-book1885 1675 in A. Grey Deb. House of Commons (1763) III. 246 All this is but an abstract of a Case-Book, (of Lord Holles, written, as is said, by him). 1762 G. Canning Horace's 1st Satire Modernized 27 Now adieu, my friend Jacob—I'll close up my case-book. 1768 E. Foster Ess. on Hospitals iii. viii. 63 The Necessity of Clerks, to the Physicians, and Surgeons, must certainly appear, if the Uses of the Case-books, before mentioned, are allowed. 1825 Lancet 20 Aug. 208/1 I have read the dispute about the Case Books of St. George's Hospital in the late Numbers of The Lancet. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter ii. 129 I know not whether ‘lay gents’..can feel any pleasure in wandering over the case-books. 1927 A. Conan Doyle (title) The case-book of Sherlock Holmes. 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West iv. 102 Let somebody present them with..a case-book page and..they all thought fit to take offence. 1953 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 19 129 This paper is a small selection from our ‘case-book’ in the Department of Environmental Archaeology. 1991 Time Out 13 Mar. 15/1 Marshall has been criticised for giving Sacks's medical casebook Hollywood's sentimental, saccharine treatment. 2. Education (originally U.S. Law). A book containing records of legal cases, used to teach law by the induction of principles from cases (as opposed to the lecture or hornbook method). Hence more generally: a book containing a selection of materials or examples, used as a reference work in studying or teaching a particular subject. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > [noun] > for reference and study manual1843 casebook1854 1854 Law Mag. 51 240 This new species of case-book, carefully arranged, so as to illustrate Blackstone. 1899 Nation 8 June 434/1 At Harvard the method applied to all branches of the English Law was substantially the same, and a casebook was in every instance required. 1903 Amer. Lawyer Aug. 343/2 Lately a case-book was published in three volumes, costing the student $10.50. 1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 112 Like the casebooks now devoted to Catcher in the Rye and to Mark Twain's Wound, this one constitutes a monument of general critical esteem for its subject. 1985 Amer. Bar Found. Res. Jrnl. 10 943 Erwin Chemerinsky is unhappy about the way law students are taught professional responsibilities... He recently published..a very critical review of three casebooks that illustrate, in his view, the sad state of the art. 1999 D. E. Mistron (title) Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John: a student casebook. 2006 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune (Nexis) 1 Oct. g4 He worked with a young professor..to prepare a casebook about the Montgomery bus boycotts. Compounds attributive, chiefly in sense 2, as casebook example, casebook method, casebook system, etc. Cf. case system n. (b) at case n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1892 Amer. Law Reg. 40 421 Mr. Richards contrasts the treatise or text-book system of instruction with the case-book system, characterizing them as follows: ‘The former method is more synthetic and abstract, the latter more inductive and concrete.’ 1911 Amer. Law School Rev. 3 128/1 That there is much to be said in favor of the case-book method of teaching law is unquestionable. 1939 F. Rodell Woe unto You, Lawyers! 140 The ‘casebook method’ of teaching Law is still the vogue in the law schools... In many ways, the old fashioned hornbook method..was more direct..and you could learn more principles faster. 1951 ABA Jrnl. Oct. 758/3 The manner in which the casebook system of teaching law traces the development of a legal principle from its inception..to its present form makes the law student realize that law is a progressive science. 1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) xii. 30/1 Her own father..was practically a casebook example of an anal retentive. 2004 A. Anderson Adventure of Eng. 110/1 Some women craved adventure and became spies, soldiers, and medicine pitchwomen. Violet McNeal's life is a casebook study of such an adventuress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1675 |
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