For example: theory of relativity and law of gravity.
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Not sure if this will be completely satisfactory but hope it points to a direction.
Laws are typically more narrow statements of how things work while a theory might encapsulate several laws and be a broader or more general statement.
For example consider that the Newtonian theory of motion has 3 famous laws. Or the various laws (Gauss, Faraday etc etc) that are encapsulated by Maxwell’s book on the Theory of Electromagnetic fields.
This does not mean that “laws” are somehow less important or significant than “theories”. These terms are just a general and not precisely used way to categorize areas of study or discovery.
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