What is "the law"

Laws \Laws\ n. the first five books of the Old Testament, also called The Law and Torah.

Syn: Pentateuch, Law of Moses, Torah.

• For other bands named Law, see Law (band) (disambiguation)

The Law were an English rock group formed in 1991 comprising drummer Kenney Jones (ex- Small Faces/ Faces and The Who) and singer Paul Rodgers (ex- Free, Bad Company, and The Firm). The two teamed up with the idea of using different supporting musicians, in order to allow Paul Rodgers to pursue whatever musical style he felt like. They assembled a core band of studio musicians, Jim Barber being the main Guitarist (whose credits include The Rolling Stones, Ruby Turner and Mick Jagger solo album), and guitarist John Staehely (ex- Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne) and bassist Pino Palladino (formerly of Paul Young's and Jools Holland's bands, and later to work with The Who), and landed guest spots from guitarists like David Gilmour, Bryan Adams, and Chris Rea. They produced Billboard's #1 AOR Chart hit "Laying Down The Law" written by Rodgers, but the album peaked at a disappointing #126 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. An album of outtakes from the first album has been released as a bootleg, often referred to as The Law II.

The Law played one show at Milton Keynes Bowl supporting ZZ Top and Bryan Adams; they were joined for this show by John Young on keyboards.

The Law derived its name, and the title of its only single, "Layin' Down the Law", from the 1970s American band Law, that recorded two albums on MCA Records when that band opened for Bad Company at the Cleveland Agora circa 1975. Paul Rogers told Law's guitar player, "I like the name of your band." Some twenty years later, he borrowed the name for his own band.

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The Law is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Exhorder, released in 1992 through Roadrunner Records. On this album, the band's sound became much more groove metal-oriented and the hardcore punk influences as heard on Slaughter in the Vatican were minimal. It was reissued by Roadrunner in 2003 in a two disc set with Slaughter in the Vatican and again in 2008. The song "Into the Void" is a cover of a Black Sabbath song off their Master of Reality album.

__NOTOC__ The Law, original French title La Loi, is an 1850 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was written at Mugron two years after the third French Revolution and a few months before his death of tuberculosis at age 49. The essay was influenced by John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and in turn influenced Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It is the work for which Bastiat is most famous along with The candlemaker's petition and the Parable of the broken window.

In The Law, Bastiat says "each of us has a natural right – from God – to defend his person, his liberty, and his property". The State is a "substitution of a common force for individual forces" to defend this right. The law becomes perverted when it is used to violate the rights of the individual, when it punishes one's right to defend himself against a collective effort of others to legislatively enact laws which basically have the same effect of plundering.

Justice has precise limits but philanthropy is limitless and government can grow endlessly when that becomes its function. The resulting statism is "based on this triple hypothesis: the total inertness of mankind, the omnipotence of the law, and the infallibility of the legislator". The relationship between the public and the legislator becomes "like the clay to the potter". Bastiat says, "I do not dispute their right to invent social combinations, to advertise them, to advocate them, and to try them upon themselves, at their own expense and risk. But I do dispute their right to impose these plans upon us by law – by force – and to compel us to pay for them with our taxes".

The Law (, and originally released in America as Where the Hot Wind Blows!) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Jules Dassin.

The Law are an indie rock band from Dundee in Scotland. Their debut album " A Measure Of Wealth" was released in September 2009 through their own record label Local Boy Records (distributed by Universal via Absolute). The first single to precede the album, "Don't Stop, Believe", was released on 20 July 2009. The second single to precede the album, "The Chase" was released on 14 September 2009.

The Law is the first and only album from the rock supergroup The Law.

The Law (French: La Loi) is a 1957 novel by French author Roger Vailland. It won the 1957 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize.

Category:1957 novels Category:20th-century French novels

The Law is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1943.