The village of Lawy was mentioned in the 16th century as a settlement in Drohiczyn district, Grand Duchy of Lithuania. From the inventory of 1591 there were 116 houses, 9 swaths of land and 10 unoccupied swaths in the village. From 1795 it was a part of the Russian Empire, Kobrin district, Slonim district, from 1797 Lithuanian, from 1801 Grodno province. The village is on Schubert’s map of 1826-1840: The village on the 1846-1863 military topographic map of the Russian Empire: