mob law
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One cannot expect mob law to be tolerant or to understand the myriad issues and influences which go to make up any given event.
From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell
"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 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.
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
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
