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
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
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 Croly, Herbert David
Upon any theory, the prohibition of sorcery by the Pentateuch was no more answerable for these iniquities than its other prohibitions for the lynch law of the backwoods.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
