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This retrospective review of my applications of semiotics to law begins by contrasting legal and semiotic positivism, and continues with a section on narrativity in the Greimasian tradition (where I stress narrative typifications of action, and emphasize the importance of the narrativization of pragmatics). Topics covered include Law and Fact, Witnessing, Courtroom Interaction, the Judicial Summing-up, narratives underlying the judicial decision, the ""not guilty"" verdict, and, in the context of religious (mainly Jewish) law: the mediation of the divine, the language of Biblical law and its principles, law and narrative in the Bible, legal concepts and institutions, truth and trust as underlying rules. The concluding section includes methodological implications and ontological radicalism.