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
- Lethal autonomous weapons system or LAWS, autonomous robots designed for military applications
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
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