You will misunderstand laws if you think they restrain action. Laws work upon reason. Only physical force - handcuffs, moats, gravity - restrains action. (The conjunction of law and force, in turn, works upon the will.)
Now, many actions in our world are quite abstract, for example a periodic bond payment. In this realm of abstract action, the law, itself abstract, appears to operates quite directly and to have a force unto itself. And that is a doubly useful appearance: it butresses compliance and simplifies the conditions for action. But the compulsion is still a matter of the prospect physical force and not the law itself: a server room can be stormed, a transmission can be scrambled, a copper wire may be cut, and - since this is hardly a modern issue - a mind may be stopped by a blow to the body.
