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Lynch-law
Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in defiance of the law, alleging as an excuse either the slowness of the regular legal procedure, or the neglect of the duly constituted authorities to put it in force, or that no duly constituted authorities exist. Lynch-law has been often practised in the United States America....
lynch law
lynch law [after William Lynch (1742-1820), American vigilante] : the punishment of presumed crimes usually by death without due process of law ...
Lynch
To inflict punishment upon especially death without the forms of law as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person See Lynch law...
Lynch law
The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses without due process of law...
lynching
lynching 1 : the crime of lynching a person 2 : lynch law ...
Jedburgh Justice
Jedburgh Justice, otherwise called Jeddart Justice, that unjust procedure whereby a person is sentenced first and tried afterwards. Jedburgh is a Scots Border town in Roxburghshire, where frequent conflicts took place between English and Scots Borderers before the Union. The turbulence of the Scots Borderers led to the establishment of a Court where very summary justice was administered, but whether any actual trial took place after sentence was passed is doubtful. Compare LYNCH LAW, from which, however, it differs from the fact of the 'justice' being done by a duty constituted authority....
Bar, trial at
Bar, trial at, the trial of a cause or prisoner before the Court itself instead of at Nisi Prius. It is confined to cases of great importance, and it is entirely discretionary with the court to grant it, unless the Crown be interested (see as to this, Dixon v. Farrar, Sec. of Board of Trade, (1886) 18 QBD 43), when the Attorney-General may demand it as of right. The procedure for obtaining it is regulated by Rules 150-155 of the Crown Office Rules of 1906.A celebrated trial at bar--of one Arthur Orton for perjury, in swearing that he was Sir Roger Tichborne--took place in 1873 before Cockburn, L.C. J., and Lush and Mellor, JJ. Others since that date are the action by the Attorney-General against Mr. Bradlaugh for penalties under the Parliament Oaths Act, A.G. v. Bradlaugh, (1885) 14 QBD 667; the trial of Dr. Jameson and many others, Reg. v. Jameson, 1896 (2) QB 425, for making an incursion into the Transvaal in contravention of the (English) Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 (see that title...
res gestae
res gestae [Latin, things done, deeds] 1 : the acts, facts, circumstances, statements, or occurrences that form the environment of a main act or event and esp. of a crime and are so closely connected to it that they constitute part of a continuous transaction and can serve to illustrate its character [the decedent's statement…was too far removed in time and place to be admissible as part of the res gestae "Lynch v. State, 552 N.E.2d 56 (1990)"] 2 a : an exception or set of exceptions to the hearsay rule that permits the admission of hearsay evidence regarding excited utterances or declarations relating to mental, emotional, or bodily states or sense impressions of a witness or participant compare dying declaration and spontaneous declaration at declaration, excited utterance NOTE: Res gestae in common law encompassed a variety of different exceptions to the hearsay rule, but most modern rules of evidence (as the Federal Rules of Evidence) have abandoned use of res gestae and...
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