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Lynch law   /lɪntʃ lɔ/   Listen
Lynch law

noun
1.
The practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law.






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"Lynch law" Quotes from Famous Books



... is nothing that Southern political leaders and capitalists so dread as anti-slavery feeling among themselves. All the force of lynch law is employed to smother discussion and blind conscience on this question. The question is not allowed to be discussed, and he who sells a book or publishes a tract makes himself liable to ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... lamp-iron at the corner of a street in Paris, used by the mob for extemporised executions during the Revolution by Lynch law. ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood



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