It may interesting to some the ideas that pertain to law or have been called law within mapping sciences over the years, for example:
First of all law itself:
law That body of rules by which a society governs
itself, i.e., which each member of that society obeys either voluntarily or
under pressure from the other members.
SEE ALSO admiralty law; case law.
Laws considering boundaries or their lacking:
law, riparian That branch of the law dealing with the rights in land bordering on a river, lake or sea.
law, unwritten That body of law not promulgated and recorded, but nevertheless observed and administered in the courts of the country. It has no certain repository, but is collected from reports of the decisions of the courts and from the treatises of learned men.
law of boundaries That collection of common‑law statutes and rulings which influence decisions in determining boundaries where conflicting evidence exists.
law of constant relative proportions Regardless of the concentration of total dissolved solids in sea water, the ratios between the concentrations of the more abundant substances are virtually constant throughout the world's oceans.
law of the sea Those internationally agreed‑upon laws which specify those boundaries, on the oceans, outside of which national laws do not apply and which define the rights and responsibilities of those who use the oceans outside such boundaries. Also called the International Law of the Sea
We also have several laws that are attributed directly to people:
limit, proportional The greatest stress a material is capable of withstanding without any deviation from proportionality of stress to strain (Hooke's law). (especially important in mechanical instrumentation)
Snell's law (of refraction) The sine of the angle of incidence divided by the sine of the angle of refraction equals a constant (called the refractive index when one of the substances is air). In algebraic terms, a ray passing from a substance of refractive index n i to a substance of refractive index n r undergoes a change Δθ in direction, given by Δθ = arcsin [(n i sin θ i) / (n r sin θ r)] ‑ θ i, in which θ i and θ r are the angles of incidence and of refraction.
Roche's law The formula D = Do (1 ‑ 0.764 r²) for the variation of density D from the center of the Earth to the outside. D o is the density at the center of the Earth and r is the average radius of a layer.
And let's not forget Tobler's law!
In this blog we will post terms and themes of related terms and their definitions that come from the The Glossary of Mapping Sciences with commentary. In the hope that by discussing the meaning of words we come to deeper understanding and more meaningful usage.