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
Once the struggle against lynch law was won, the N.A.A.C.P. could give top priority to another drive�against segregated education.
From Time Magazine Archive
The safeguards of trial by jury, regular judicial procedure, and habeas corpus were established, in order that the methods of civilized life might take the place of the rough-and-ready justice of lynch law.
From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)
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 Fisher, Sydney George
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 Culp, Daniel Wallace
