1838 J. F. Cooper III. xi. 333 Mr. Dodge belonged to a tolerably numerous class, that is quaintly described as being ‘law honest’, that is to say, he neither committed murder nor petty larceny.
1873 22 Feb. 236/2 To find representatives who after a double winnowing are commonly ‘law honest’, will abstain from actual bribes or actual plundering of the State till.