Law (disambiguation)
Law or Laws can refer to more than one thing:
- In human societies, law is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological or in a philosophical or semantic sense.
- In science, a law of nature, an empirical law or principle, or physical law is a statement that describes regular or patterned relationships among observable phenomena.
- Laws of logic and mathematics describe the nature of rational thought.
- Laws of economics and psychology describe the nature of human behavior and interaction.
- Many adages are popularly known as "laws"; such as Murphy's law.
- In some Christian denominations, the Old Testament tradition is referred to as the Law, in contrast with the New Testament, which is referred to as the Gospel. More specifically, in Hebrew the first five books of the Tanakh are called the Torah, which means the Law, as distinguished from the sections of the Prophets and the Writings.
- Items associated with the practice of law are often called "legal," such as "legal paper size."
- The Laws is a dialogue by Plato.
- LAWs are light anti-armor rockets used by NATO armies.
People named Law
- Andrew Bonar Law - British prime minister
- Bernard Cardinal Law - Archbishop of Boston
- John Law - economist
- Jude Law - actor
- Rick Law - illustrator
Law is also a common transliteration for the Chinese surname 羅 (see Luo (surname)).