Law (disambiguation)

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Law is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological and in a philosophical sense.

Law, LAW, or laws may also refer to:

• Rule of law, the principle that restricts governmental authority
• Law (principle), universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something
• Law, a Scots language word for a conical hill which rises incongruously from the surrounding landscape
• Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, Scottish bus company also known as Law of Shotts

Media and entertainment

• Live Audio Wrestling, a professional wrestling call-in show
• L.A. Law, American television show

Anime and Manga

• Trafalgar D. Water Law, a character from the anime and manga One Piece

Games

• Law, One axis of the alignment system used in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; see Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Marshall and Forest Law, two characters from the Tekken video game series
• Law Rune, one of the Runes in the role-playing game RuneScape

Literature and publications

• Law (comics), fictional supervillain
• L.A.W. (comics), a limited series comic book published by DC comics

Music

• Law (band), a seventies Funk / Rock band from Ohio
• "Law", a song by David Bowie from his album Earthling

Military

• Light anti-tank weapon; see anti-tank warfare
• LAW 80, a British light anti-tank weapon
• M72 LAW, an American light anti-tank weapon
• MBT LAW, a Swedish light anti-tank weapon
• Laser Weapon System or LaWS, a United States navy laser weapon

Names

• Luo (surname) (羅), a Chinese surname commonly transliterated Law
• Law (surname)
• Laws (surname)

Organizations

• League of American Bicyclists, formerly known as the League of American Wheelmen
• League of American Writers
• Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights (also known as LAW)

Philosophy and religion

• Laws (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, dealing with the origin of normative laws and physical laws
• Natural law, an ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere
• Religious law, the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs
• The Law (1849 book), a book by French classical liberal Frédéric Bastiat
• Principle, an abstract object sometimes known as a law
  • Adage, a principle in the form of a memorable saying
  • See List of eponymous laws

Places

• Landywood railway station, England
• Law, South Lanarkshire, small town in Scotland
• Laws, California, in Inyo County
• Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport, Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States
• The Law, a peak of the Ochil Hills
• Law, Dundee, an extinct volcanic peak at the centre of the Scottish city of Dundee
• North Berwick Law, a hill overlooking North Berwick in Scotland

Science and mathematics

• Law (stochastic processes), a specific form of law in the stochastic processes subfield of mathematicals
• Laws of science, established principles thought to be universal and invariable
  • Scientific law, or physical law, a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior
  • See List of scientific laws named after people
• General Laws, several general laws apply to most of mathematics, such as:
  • Associative law
  • Commutative law
  • Distributive law
  • Law of the Additive identity
  • Law of the Additive inverse
  • Law of the Multiplicative identity
  • Law of the Multiplicative inverse
• LAW can designate in informatics the Local Address Window

Sports

• Laredo Law, a defunct 2004 af2 arena football team in Laredo, Texas
• Regulation of sport, the rules and principles under which sport is conducted
  • Laws of Australian football, relating to Australian football
  • Laws of cricket, relating to cricket
  • Laws of the Game (association football), relating to association football, otherwise known as football or soccer.

See also

• List of eponymous laws