Last name: LAWS
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LAWS : This last name is indexed 71,441 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
LAWS : 1: English: variant of Law (pet form of Lawrence) with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.2: Perhaps a shortened form of Scottish or Irish McLeish. Compare McLaws.
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