club law

noun

Roget 744: compulsion, coercion, coaction^†, constraint, duress, enforcement, press, conscription.    force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio [Lat.]; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum^†, le droit du plus fort [Fr.], martial law.    restraint etc. 751; necessity etc. 601; force majeure [Fr.]; Hobson's choice.    ... show more

Roget 964: lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience etc. 742; unconformity etc. 83.    arbitrariness etc. adj.; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry.    mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat [Fr.]; le droit du plus fort [Fr.]; argumentum baculinum [Lat.].    illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.    trover and conversion [Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony.    [person who violates the law] outlaw, bad man etc. 949.    v.. offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.    smuggle, run, poach.    ... show more

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