mob law
Example Sentences
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As this was likely to be mob law Sanders, and not Judge LeMonde, was elected chairman and the deliberations commenced at once.
From The Kentucky Ranger by Curnick, Edward T.
"With mills and mill-hands," her ladyship announced to Mr. Laurence, the mill-owner, when chance first threw them together, "with mills and mill-hands come murder, massacre, and mob law."
From A Fair Barbarian by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
"It is hard to believe that they would yield up their country to mob law."
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
It hardly need be said, that without exception, the current of English thought deprecates the rule of mob law, and the conscience of England is shocked by the revelation made during the present crusade.
From The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
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
