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Does only Demeter's Law apply to methods?

The description of the LOD that I saw (e.g. Wikipedia , C2 Wiki ) speak of non-calling methods. To quote Wikipedia:

The Demeter law for functions requires that the method M of an object O can only call methods of the following types of objects:
- About itself
- M parameters
- any objects created / created in M ​​- O objects of a direct component
- a global variable accessible by O, in the area M

But what about accessing properties, variables, or enumerations? For example, given this:

class FirstClass {
    public SecondClass GetRelatedClass() {
        return new SecondClass();
    }

    public enum InnerEnum {
        Violated,
        NotViolated
    }
}

class SecondClass {
    public int Property {get; set;}
    public string _variable = "Danny Demeter";
}

Are there any / all of these LOD violations? (Ignore direct access to the variable if you can ..)

void Violate(FirstClass first) {
    SecondClass second = first.GetRelatedClass();
    var x = second.Property;
    var y = second._variable;
    var z = FirstClass.InnerEnum.Violated;
}

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