L A U 
H AU'TERBACH, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Saatz : feven miles fouth-ead of Falkenau, and fixty-five 
wed of Prague. Lat. 50. 2. N. Ion. 12.45.E. 
LAU'TERBACH, a river of Silefia, which runs into 
the Katzbach near Schonau in the principality of Jauer. 
LAU'TERBACH, a river of Wurtemberg, which runs 
into the Enz two miles weft-fouth-welt of Wiidbad. 
LAU'TERBACH, a town of Upper Helfe : thirteen 
miles north-well of Fulda, and thirty-three eall of Wetz- 
lar. 
LAU'TERBACH, a town of Saxony five miles north- 
well of Zwickau. 
LAU'TERBERG, a town of Wellphalia, in the Hartz 
Forell,near which are mines and forges of copperand iron : 
fourteen miles fouth of Goflar. 
LAUTERBRUNN', a valley of Swilferland, in the can¬ 
ton of Berne, of about fifteen miles in circumference, ce¬ 
lebrated for its piblurefque and romantic fcencry; a beau¬ 
tiful catarafil, magnificent glaciers, rocks of calcareous 
Hone and granite, and mines cf iron and lead 5 it takes its 
name from a village : fix miles fouth of Interlacken. 
LAU'TERBURG, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine, on the Lauter. On the 16th of Sep¬ 
tember, 1793, the Aullrians were defeated by the French 
near this town, with the lofsof 1500 men. It was taken by 
the Aullrians in October 1793. It is fourteen miles fouth 
of Landau, ten eall of Weilfembourg, and twenty-nine 
north-north-eall of Stralburg. Lat. 49. N. Ion. 8. 14. E. 
LAU'TERECK, a town of France, in the department 
of the Same, fituated on the Gian : twenty-four miles 
north of Deux Ponts, and forty-fix fouth of Coblentz. 
Lat. 49. 39. N. Ion. 7. 35. E. 
LAU'TERHOFEN, a town of Bavaria: thirteen miles 
fouth-well of Atnberg, and twelve fouth-well of Sulz- 
bach. 
LAU'TERN, or Kaiser’s Lautern. See Kaisers¬ 
lautern, vol. xi. p. 586. 
LAU'TERN, a town of Prufiia, in the province of Er- 
liieland : fourteen miles fouth-fouth-eall of Heillberg. 
LAU'TERSHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the 
principality of Anfpach, on the Altmuhl: thirteen miles 
north-north-eall of Dinckelfliuhl, and eight well of Anf¬ 
pach. 
LAU'TERSTEIN, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Erzgeberg : feventeen miles fouth-fouth-well of Freyberg, 
and thirty-two fouth-well of Drefden. 
LAU'TRACH, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Bregentz : two miles fouth of Bregentz. 
LAU'TREC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Tarn : twelve miles north-north-welt of Cadres, and 
fifteen fouth of Gaiilac. 
LAU'TTE, a town of Prufiia, in Oberland : fixteen 
miles eall-fouth-eaft of Marienwerder. 
LAVUN'S, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees : fifteen miles fouth-eall of Oleron, and 
nineteen fouth of Pau. 
LAU'WERS (Conrad and Nicholas), brothers and en¬ 
gravers, born at Leufe, in Hainault, in 1613 and 1620, 
but edabliflied tliemfelves and publilhed their engravings 
at Antwerp. Their fortunes and their merits were nearly 
equal. Both emulated the merits of the fchool of Ru¬ 
bens, and, as Strutt thinks, ltudied under Paul Pontius, 
whofe dyle of engraving they for the rnoft part imitated, 
working with the graver alone. Neither was, however, 
by any means equal to that great mader, either in know¬ 
ledge of forms, powers of delineation, or excellency of 
handling. The time of their death is not known. 
LAUZER'TE, a town of France, and principal place 
of a didricl, in the department of the Lot: feventeen 
miles north-wed of Montauban, and feventeen fouth-wed 
of Cahors. Lat. 44. 15. N. Ion. 1.13.E. 
LAU'ZES, a town of France, in the department of the 
I.ot, and chief place of a canton, in the didridt of Ca- 
horn. The place contains 444, and the canton 7139, in¬ 
habitants. 
LAW > 3IA 
LAUZE'T, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Alps: ten miles wed of Barcelonette. 
LAUZUN', a town of France, and principal place of a 
diltridl, in the department of the Lot and Garonne: four¬ 
teen miles north-eall of Marmande, and fourteen north- 
weft of Mondanquin. Lat. 44 38. N. Ion. o. 32. E. 
LAW,/, [laje, lagea, or lah. Sax. /awe, Belg. loi, Fr. 
legge, Ital. ley, Span, and Port, laugh, Erfe; lex, from ligo, 
to bind, Lat.] A rule of action.—That which doth afiign 
unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the 
force and power, that which doth appoint the form and 
mealureof working: the fame we term a law. Hooker. 
Unhappy man! to break the pious laws 
Of nature, pleading in his children’s caufe. Dryden. 
A degree, edidl, datute, or cudom, publicly edablilhed a* 
a rule of judice.—Our nation would not give laws to the 
Iriih, therefore now the Irifh gave laws to them. Davies. 
Ordain them laws, part fuch as appertain 
To civil judice, part religious rites. Milton. 
A decree authoritatively annexing rewards or punifii- 
ments to certain adlions.—So many laws argue lb many 
fins. Milton. —Judicial procefs.—Tom Touchy is a fellow 
famous for taking the law of every body: there is notone 
in the town where he lives that he has not fued at a quar- 
ter-feflions. Addi/bn's Spoliator. 
He hath refided law. 
And therefore law fliall fcorn him further trial 
Than the feverity of public power. Suakefpeare. 
A didindt edidl or rule. — One law is fplit into two. Ba¬ 
ker on Learning. —Conformity to law 3 any thing lawful: 
In a rebellion, 
When what’s not meet, but what mud be, was law, 
Then were they chofen. Shakefpeare's Coriolanus. 
The rules or axioms of fcience : as, the laws of mechanics. 
—An edablilhed and condant mode or procefs ; a fixed 
correfpondence of caufe and effedt : as, the laws of mag- 
netifm.—Natural agents have their law. Hooker. 
I dy’d, whild in the womb he dny’d, 
Attending Nature’s law. Shakefpcare's Cymbeline. 
The Mofaical inditution : didinguidied from the gofpcl: 
Law can difcover fin, but not remove, 
Save by thefe lhadowy expiations. Milton. 
The books in which the Jewilh religion is delivered : dif- 
tinguilhed from the prophets. —Whatfoever ye would that 
men diould do to you, do ye even fo to them : for this is 
the law and the prophets. Matth. vii. 12.—A particu¬ 
lar form or mode of trying and judging: as, law martial, 
law mercantile, the ecclefialtical law whereby we are go¬ 
verned. Jurifprudence; the lludy of law. 
Thus then Law, in its primary and mod comprehen- 
five lenl’e, dignifies a rule of adlion ; it is applied indif- 
criminately to all kinds of adlion, whether animate or in¬ 
animate, rational or irrational ; and it is that rule of ac¬ 
tion which is prefcribed by fome-luperior, and which the 
inferior is bound to obey. 
Thus, when the Supreme Being formed the univerfe, and 
created matter out of nothing, he imprelfed certain prin¬ 
ciples upon that matter, from which it can never depart, 
and without which it would ceafe to be. When he put 
that matter into motion, he edablilhed certain laws of 
motion, to which all moveable bodies mud conform. And, 
to defcend from the greatell operations to the fmalled, 
when a workman forms a clock, or other piece of mecha- 
nifm, he eltablifhes at his own pleafure certain arbitrary 
laws for its direction 5 as, that the hand lhall defcribe a 
given 1’pace in a given time ; to which law as long as the 
w'ork conforms, fo long it continues in perfedtion, and 
anfwers the end of its formation. 
If we farther advance, from mere inaclive matter to ve¬ 
getable and animal life, we fnall find them dill governed 
by laws 3 more numerous indeed, but equally fixed and 
3 invariable.. 
