lynch law
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The U.N.'s Trygve Lie snapped back: "I am taking orderly and legal measures . . . without recourse to lynch law and smear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Every pulpit North and South should speak out against mob rule and lynch law.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
What effort was made in 1768 to put a stop to lynch law?
From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by John Fiske
Such bodies of state police, efficiently used, could not only prevent the lawlessness which frequently accompanies strikes, but it could gradually stamp out lynch law.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
As has been recently shown the term lynch law originated during the revolution and was taken from the name of the brother of the man who founded Lynchburgh in Virginia.
From The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal" by Sydney George Fisher
