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.
Nevertheless, there is no proof that mob law prevailed in Belgium, as it did in Germany.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.
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
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
"No," said Brookhouse, shortly, "I'm going home; I don't believe in mob law."
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lynch, Lawrence L.
