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Law of Moses (תורת משה)
The Law of Moses (Mosaic law, the Torah) is the body of instruction attributed to Moses, meaning the Deuteronomic code, the Pentateuch, or Scripture with the Oral Tradition.
Law of multiple proportions
The law of multiple proportions, or law of simple multiple proportions, is a chemistry rule stating that masses combining with a fixed mass form simple whole-number ratios, formulated by John Dalton.
Law of noncontradiction
The law of noncontradiction, also called the principle of non-contradiction, is the logical principle that a proposition and its negation cannot both be true at the same time.
Law of obligations
Law of obligations: the private-law field governing duties owed between persons, covering contract, tort, and restitution. Rooted in Justinian's Roman classification and shared by civil and common law systems, it pairs every obligor's duty with an obligee's right.
Law of Property Act 1925
Law of Property Act 1925 (1925 c. 20) is the cornerstone English land law statute consolidating conveyancing law, passed 9 April 1925 with five companion Acts; it reduced estates to freehold and leasehold and remains in amended force.
Law of reflection
The law of reflection states that the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence, both measured from the normal, with incident ray, reflected ray, and normal coplanar.
Law of Return (חוק השבות)
Law of Return (חוק השבות), Israel's 1950 law giving every Jew the right to immigrate (aliyah) as an oleh; amended 1954 and 1970, when sections 4A and 4B extended eligibility to children, grandchildren, and spouses of Jews and defined "Jew".
Law of sines
The law of sines, also called the sine rule, states that in any triangle each side divided by the sine of its opposite angle gives the same value.
Law of Spikelets
The Law of Spikelets (Закон о трёх колосках) is the popular name for a 1932 Soviet decree making theft of collective farm property punishable by execution.
Law of succession
The law of succession is the branch of private law governing how a person's property passes to others at death, covering inheritance, the order successors take, and estate administration.
Law of succession in South Africa
South African law of succession: how estates pass by will (Wills Act 1953) or intestate succession (Act 81 of 1987), administered under the Administration of Estates Act 66 of 1965 by the Master of the High Court, with customary succession reshaped by Bhe.
Law of Suspects
The Law of Suspects (loi des suspects), a French National Convention decree of 17 September 1793 during the Terror, defined six categories of suspects, ordered their arrest by surveillance committees, and detained them until the peace.
Law of the instrument
Law of the instrument, also Maslow's hammer or golden hammer: a cognitive bias of over-relying on a familiar tool. Named by Abraham Kaplan in 1964; famous hammer phrasing from Maslow's 1966 The Psychology of Science.
Law of the iterated logarithm
The law of the iterated logarithm (LIL) is a probability theorem giving the exact envelope, of order sqrt(2n log log n), that random-walk fluctuations touch infinitely often, first proved by Khinchin in 1924.
Law of the jungle
Law of the jungle: phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling in The Second Jungle Book (1895) for the Seeonee wolf-pack's code of cooperation and obedience, now used to mean ruthless self-interest, its opposite.
Law of the sea
Law of the sea: international law governing ocean rights and duties, centered on UNCLOS (1982, in force 1994), with 320 articles defining maritime zones, the EEZ, and the Area; the US has not ratified.
Law of the unconscious statistician
The law of the unconscious statistician (LOTUS) is a theorem of probability theory stating that the expected value of g(X) can be computed directly from the distribution of X, without first deriving the distribution of g(X).
Law of the United Kingdom
The law of the United Kingdom comprises three separate legal systems, England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, under an uncodified constitution of parliamentary sovereignty, common law, and devolved legislatures.
Law of the United States
Law of the United States: the federal-state legal system under the U.S. Constitution, combining English common law, statutes, and regulations; 94 federal district courts, 13 circuits, state courts handling most cases, Louisiana's mixed civil law exception.
Law of the wall
The law of the wall, also called the logarithmic law of the wall, is an empirical relation in fluid mechanics stating that velocity in turbulent flow near a wall varies as the logarithm of distance.
Law of three stages
Comte's law of three stages (loi des trois états): doctrine that knowledge passes through theological, metaphysical, and positive stages, tied to his hierarchy of sciences and social evolution theory.
Law of total expectation
The law of total expectation, also called the law of iterated expectations or tower property, states that a random variable's expected value is the probability-weighted average of conditional expectations.
Law of total probability
The law of total probability, also called the total probability theorem, expresses an event's probability as a weighted sum of its conditional probabilities over a partition of the sample space.
Law of total variance
The law of total variance, also called the variance decomposition formula or Eve's law, states Var(Y) = E[Var(Y|X)] + Var(E[Y|X]), splitting variance into explained and unexplained parts.
Law of triviality
Parkinson's law of triviality, also called bikeshedding or the bike-shed effect, is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 satirical observation that committees spend discussion time in inverse proportion to the money involved, approving a reactor in minutes and arguing over a bike shed.
Law of Vanuatu
The law of Vanuatu, also called Vanuatu law, is a mixed system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law, unified since independence in 1980.
Law of war
The law of war, also called international humanitarian law or LOAC, is the body of treaty and customary rules protecting war victims and limiting means of warfare, centered on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precautions.
Law Offices of Corey D. Boddie, Esq. LLC
Law Offices of Corey D. Boddie, Esq. LLC is an Atlanta, Georgia law firm led by attorney Corey D. Boddie, known for filing unusually large SEC Rule 506(b) offerings in 2026.
Law on Estates of 1832
The Law on Estates of 1832 (Указ о почётных гражданах) created the estate of honorary citizens in the Russian Empire, granting merchants and professionals privileges below the nobility.
Law on Land Consolidation of 29 May 1911
The Law on Land Consolidation of 29 May 1911 was an imperial Russian statute confirmed by Tsar Nicholas II, letting peasants consolidate land without first leaving the commune.