The inflected forms lawed and lawing could belong to either law or lawe, and dictionaries differ on which spelling they lemmatize, so even mentions are useful for deciding the matter.
1876, James Thorne, Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, ...:
In the Dom. Survey the hundred of Honeslowe occurs; somewhat later the name is written Hundeslowe, or lawe, whence Lysons suggests as a derivation, "Hounds' law," which may be taken for what it is worth. He adds in explanation, to lawe a hound, was an obsolete word for laming him, by cutting out one of the balls of his foot, which was done by the foresters to all dogs kept on the "King's forests," above a certain size;
