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Dombec

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Domboc.

Sax. [from dom, judgment, and bec, boc, a book.] Domebook or doombook. A name given among the Saxons, to a code of laws. Several of the Saxon kings published dombocs, but the most important one was that attributed to Alfred.

Crabb's Hist. 7.

This is sometimes confounded with the celebrated Domesday book. See Domebook, Domesday.