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lynch
lynch : to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction lynch·er n
Lynch
especially death without the forms of law as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person See Lynch law
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lynch law
lynch law [after William Lynch (1742-1820), American vigilante] : the punishment of presumed crimes usually by death without due
Lynch-law
Lynch-law, the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in
Lynches, or Linces
Lynches, or Linces. The banks between the terraces formed where a common field is on a hillside by ploughing,
Lynch law
The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses without due process of law
Bar, trial at
Transvaal in contravention of the (English) Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 (see that title); and the trial of Arthur Lynch, R. v. Lynch, 1903 (1) KB 444, who, whilst a British subject enlisted and took an oath of
Lyncher
One who assists in lynching
defalcation
expectation [the school committee's s did not end with its refusal to submit a desegregation plan "S. L. Lynch"]
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