lynch law
noun
1 lynch law
The practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law.
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.
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Roget 738:
laxity;
laxness,
looseness,
slackness;
toleration
etc.
(lenity)
740;
freedom
etc.
748.
anarchy,
interregnum;
relaxation;
loosening
etc.
v.;
remission;
dead letter,
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
misrule;
license,
licentiousness;
insubordination
etc.
(disobedience)
742;
lynch law
etc.
(illegality)
964;
nihilism,
reign of violence.
[Deprivation of power]
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication.
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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.
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