lynch law
Noun
Meaning
The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
fort
club
disorder
confusion
martial
disruption
mob
anarchy
lynching
disorganization
misrule
antinomianism
anarchism
disorderliness
mobocracy
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Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
The U. S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate.