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1714 J. Egleton Vindic. Commons rejecting Treaty Nav. Pref. 4 Whether a Person in Court, who had been enter'd on the Books as polling for all the Candidates, should not lose his Vote.

1788 H. Watson in Med. Communications 2 258 She..continued on the books as an out-patient.

1858 J. Graham Jerusalem, its Missions, Schools, Converts, &c. under Bishop Gobat 44 He..saw the head-master, and the house-master, and found that..the lad was down on the books as having entered at Whitsunday 1854.

1887 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Oct. 1/8 Not a single bogus or fictitious name was shown upon the books.

1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 217/1 Portsmouth, in the sixties, were among the first to employ a first-team squad only, with about fifteen players on the books.

2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton Once more, with Feeling xx. 147 So we need a bisexual: handsome, young, blond, innocent..and on the books of a professional porn agency.

1754 Universal Advertiser 21 Feb. 134 I desire to know by what Law? There is no such express Law on the Books.

1845 Universalist Watchman 15 Nov. 139/3 Nearly all the partialist clergy will do all in their power to keep the law on the books.

1896 Atlanta Constit. 23 Jan. 3/4 It did more to check the ways of the toughs there than did the laws upon the books.

1930 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 12 360 When emergencies arise, it is a good time to put basic needed legislation on the books.

1980 Sci. Amer. Apr. 63/3 Texas, which already has such a capital-punishment law on the books, currently ranks second in the nation, with 119 on death row.

2011 New Yorker 2 May 31/1 The Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which is still on the books, forbids any member of the Royal Family to marry without her [sc. the Queen's] permission.