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lynch law

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lynch law
n.
The practice of lynching: "the injustices suffered by black citizensdisfranchisement, lynch law and mob rule" (Scot French).
[Probably after Charles Lynch (1736-1796), American militiaman and justice of the peace who held summary extralegal trials and whippings of supposed Tory sympathizers in Virginia during the American Revolution.]
lynch law
n
(Law) the practice of condemning and punishing a person by mob action without a proper trial
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Noun1.lynch law - the practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law
practice, pattern - a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
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lynch law
n → Lynchjustiz f


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Had he exerted a little of the Lynch law of the wilderness, and hanged those dexterous horsemen in their own lasos, it would but have been a well-merited and salutary act of retributive justice.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
I succeeded in getting away without an additional blow, and barely so; for to strike a white man is death by Lynch law,--and that was the law in Mr.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick View in context
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