1. Students in American law schools often use hornbooks as supplements to casebooks. 2. Hornbooks summarize and explain the law in a specific area.3. His remarks to reporters Wednesday could have been taken from the Republican hornbook . 4. Certain treatises, called hornbooks , are used by American law students as supplements to casebooks. 5. The Restatement's hornbook rule ( to which the quoted commentary is appended ) says that a 6. She teaches writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a masthead reviewer for The Hornbook . 7. If you want sources to improve the article I would suggest a few law-treatises or hornbooks . 8. In United States law, a hornbook is a text that gives an overview of a particular area of law. 9. The term derives from the hornbook , an early children's educational tool, implying that the material is basic. 10. Let me know what you think . talk / WP : Hornbook 07 : 30, 3 March 2010 ( UTC)