Law, Andrew, 1749-1821, American composer, b. Milford, Conn. He was a preacher in Philadelphia and Baltimore and, later, a singing teacher in New England. Opposed to the contrapuntal style of William Billings, Law wrote rather simple hymn tunes. In his Select Harmony (1778), Collection of Best Tunes and Anthems (1779), and other compilations, he collected and arranged many tunes of other composers. He was among the first Americans to arrange hymns with the melody in the soprano instead of the tenor part. Law's teaching books were important in early American music education. One of the first American writers about music, he published Essays on Music in 1814.

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
• The Law, a book by French classical liberal Frédéric Bastiat

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

• Brian Laws (born 1961) English football player and manager
• 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
• List of eponymous laws

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
• A Lowland Scots word for a conical hill which rises incongruously from the surrounding landscape, see e.g. North Berwick Law

See also

• LAW (disambiguation)