Law (disambiguation)

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• Loi_(homonymie)
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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:

Government

• Rule of law, the principle that restricts governmental authority
• Items associated with the practice of law are often called "legal," such as "legal paper size;" see Paper size#North American paper sizes

Philosophy and religion

• Principle, an abstract object sometimes known as a law
  • Adage, a principle in the form of a memorable saying
  • See List of eponymous laws
• Religious law, the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs
• 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 (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, dealing with the origin of normative laws and physical laws

Science and mathematics

• 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
• Law (stochastic processes), a mathematical law

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 the Game, relating to football (soccer)
  • Laws of cricket, relating to cricket
  • Laws of Australian football, relating to Australian football

People

• Acie Law IV (born 1985), American basketball player
• Alvin Law (born 1960), Canadian motivational speaker
• Andrew Bonar Law (1858-09-16 – 1923-10-30), British prime minister
• Bernard Francis Law (born 1931), former Archbishop of Boston
• Evander M. Law (1836 – 1920), general in the Confederate States Army
• Denis Law (born 1940), Scottish football player
• John Law (disambiguation), name of a number of people
• Jude Law (born 1972), English actor
• Peter Law (1948-04-01 – 2006-04-25), Welsh politician
• Peter Law (actor) (years unknown), English actor and father of Jude Law
• Rick Law (born 1969), American illustrator
• Robert D. Law (1944 – 1969), United States Medal of Honor recipient
• Ty Law (born 1974), American football cornerback
• William Law (1686 – 1761), British politician
• William Law (Latter Day Saints) (1809–1892), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Law is a common transliteration for the Chinese surname 羅 (see Luo (surname))

People named Laws

• George Malcolm Laws (born 1919), an American folklorist also known as G. Malcolm Laws
• John Laws (born 1935), an Australian broadcaster
• Stuart Laws (born 1950), a British racing driver

Other

• Law (comics), a fictional supervillain
• L.A. Law, an American television show
• Law, South Lanarkshire, a small town in Scotland
• Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, a Scottish bus company also known as Law of Shotts
• One axis of the alignment system used in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; see Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Law Rune, one of the Runes in the role-playing game Runescape

See also

• LAW (disambiguation)

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