Laws of Time

The Laws of Time are a set of guidelines and laws guiding what a time traveller may do.

They traditionally prevented Gallifrey's 'present' from interacting with its subjective past or future. (NA: Lungbarrow).

One of the Laws of Time supposedly prevents Time Lords from meeting their previous selves, but this is broken several times in emergencies. (DW: The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, BFA: The Sirens of Time)

The Doctor has at stated that he was "...Defender of the Laws of Time" in his seventh persona and eighth persona. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, EDA: Vampire Science)

The Laws of Time became weakened during the Second War in Heaven so that future events filtered back to influence interact with events prior to the war's outbreak. (EDA: Alien Bodies, The Taking of Planet 5)