lynch law
Example Sentences
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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
From that event many intelligent and conservative people associated slavery with lynch law and outrage upon the rights of free speech and popular assembly.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
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
Where people have the right of trial in a legally constituted court of law, they must refrain from mob rule or from lynch law.
From The Short Constitution by William F. Russell
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
