Law (disambiguation)
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Law is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological or in a philosophical or semantic sense.
Law or laws may also refer to:
- Rule of law, the principle that restricts governmental authority
- Religious law, the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs
- Law (stochastic processes), a mathematical law
- Natural law, an ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere
- Laws of science
- Physical law or Scientific law, a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior
- Laws (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, dealing with the origin of normative laws and physical laws
- Items associated with the practice of law are often called "legal," such as "legal paper size."
[edit] Sports
- Laredo Law, a defunct 2004 af2 arena football team in Laredo, Texas
- Laws of the Game, relating to football (soccer)
- Laws of cricket, relating to cricket
- Laws of Australian football, relating to Australian football
[edit] People
- Acie Law IV, an American basketball player
- Alvin Law, a motivational speaker
- Andrew Bonar Law, a British prime minister
- Bernard Francis Law, the former Archbishop of Boston
- Evander M. Law, confederate Civil War general
- Denis Law, a Scottish football player
- John Law (economist), an economist
- John Phillip Law, an American actor
- Jude Law, an actor
- Law (comics), a fictional character
- Peter Law (actor), an actor and father of Jude Law
- Rick Law, an illustrator
- Robert Law (RAF officer) (1917-2008), Royal Air Force Group Captain and pathfinder
- Robert D. Law, United States Medal of Honor recipient
- John Laws, a broadcaster
- Ty Law, an American football cornerback
- William Law, a British politician
- William Law (Latter Day Saints), an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
- George Malcolm Laws (b 1919) Folklorist, also known as G Malcolm Laws
- Stuart Laws, a British racing driver
- Law is also a common transliteration for the Chinese surname 羅 (see Luo (surname))
[edit] Other
- L.A. Law, an American television show
- Law, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, a small town
- Law of Shotts, also known as Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire
- One axis of the Alignment system used in Dungeons & Dragons, a roleplaying games.
- Law Rune, one of the Runes in the RPG Runescape