mob law
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From such topics as citizenship, social and legal discrimination, disfranchisement, and mob law, the historian will learn much by observing how these things impressed this worker in the South and his reaction on them.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
When he saw, however, that mob law was about to usurp the place of the Republican institutions for which he had striven, he leaned towards the court and advocated the sacrosanctity of the King's person.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
A man acting in your capacity," said the factor, "should never make use of such expressions-never give encouragement to mob law.
From Manuel Pereira by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
What we call nowadays mob law had not yet made its appearance—that is, in connection with witchcraft.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace
The duel is a relic of barbarism and should be no longer tolerated; it is mob law, really, and indefensible, with two persons defying the statutes instead of a thousand.
From Kennedy Square by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
