Noun
The act or practice by private persons of inflicting punishment for crimes or offenses, without due process of law.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThus 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. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The U. S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate. James Bovard