Lynch - Law Dictionary Search Results

lynch

lynch : to put to death (as by hanging) by mob

lynch law [after William Lynch (1742-1820), American vigilante] : the punishment

Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by

when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person See Lynch law

Lynches, or Linces. The banks between the terraces formed where a

Act, 1870 (see that title); and the trial of Arthur Lynch, R. v. Lynch, 1903 (1) KB 444, who, whilst a

with its refusal to submit a desegregation plan "S. L. Lynch"]

lynching 1 : the crime of lynching a person 2 :

prima facie accredit new entrance examinations as nondiscriminatory "S. L. Lynch"] compare ex facie adj : sufficient to establish a fact

res gestae [Latin, things done, deeds] 1 : the acts, facts, circumstances, statements, or occurrences that form the environment of...