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单词 judge lynchs law
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Judge Lynch’s law
Compounds with Judge Lynch's, with the sense ‘of or belonging to (the hypothetical) Judge Lynch; characterized by mob justice’; as Judge Lynch’s court, Judge Lynch’s law, Judge Lynch’s sentence, etc.
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1835 Hillsborough (N. Carolina) Record 6 Aug. It is said that during the execution of Judge Lynch's sentence, the culprit frequently begged to be shot, but was told that such a death was too easy for him.
1835 Niles' Reg. 22 Aug. 436/2 Apprehending judge Lynch's law, he put out in a hurry. He was pursued and caught... There was some defect in the indictment..which the advocates of judge Lynch's court thought proper to rectify, and Mr. Damewood's back bears evident marks of the supremacy of Lynch's law.
1900 S. A. Hamilton Vengeance of Mob (back matter) An exciting story of Florida, in which the characteristics and the effects of ‘Judge Lynch's’ rule are exploited.
1967 O. Osofsky Burden of Race 179 Negroes who were supposedly insolent.., used abusive language to white women, murdered white men and so on were subject to Judge Lynch's law.
2009 Sunday Independent (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 12 Those good ole redneck sheriffs from the Deep South..who would stand benignly back while Judge Lynch's merry men threw a rope over a tree branch, lit a burning cross, and hauled their victim aloft.
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