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Definition of Lynch law
1. Noun. The practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lynch Law
Literary usage of Lynch law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1821)
"... regarded as an effort to neutralize one poison by the employment <>f another.
Certain it is that in no tolerable condition v can lynch law be excused or ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"lynch law, or JUDGE LYNCH, a name for irregular punishment, especially capital,
inflicted by private individuals independently of the legal authorities. ..."
3. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... to resort to what was ordinarily called lynch-law. Properly speaking the term "
lynch- law" applied only to the kind of law that is administered in ..."
4. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"Why the term lynch law has been made use of, I do not know; ... lynch law, as at
first constituted, was nothing more than punishment awarded to offend- ..."
5. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"The laws of the Southern States would certainly have been forestalled by the
speedier action of lynch- law, in putting a stop to my experimental ..."
6. The State of Prisons and of Child-saving Institutions in the Civilized World by Enoch Cobb Wines (1879)
"lynch law. HOWEVER, there is this at least to be said in favor of Persian justice, —
that it is prompt. A man charged with crime is quickly tried, ..."
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