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lynch law
noun as in punishment by hanging without due process
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It was the eighth day after the fearful application of Lynch Law we have just described, a little before sunset.
A great deal has been said and written lately about feuds and lynch-law in the districts around the lower Mississippi.
For such offences there is no law to reach a slave but lynch law.
Well have lynch-law here in just about ten minutes, if you aint spry.
To suppress these desperadoes, in the absence of strong legal institutions, resort was continually made to lynch law.
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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lynch law, such as: criminal syndicalism, gang rule, kangaroo court, mob law, mobocracy, and mob rule.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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