单词 | lynch court |
释义 | > as lemmasLynch court As modifier. Originally used with reference to the infliction of punishment by a self-constituted court having no legal authority, of the kind associated with ‘Judge Lynch’ (see Judge Lynch n.), as Lynch court, etc.; later also more generally with reference to mob justice, esp. summary execution (cf. lynch v. 1a). See also lynch law n., lynch man n., lynch mob n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > improperly constituted court lynch1835 Vehmgericht1845 kangaroo court1853 1835 Zion's Herald 28 Oct. 171/3 A letter from New Orleans..mentions that another instance of punishment, under the sentence of a Lynch court, had been inflicted in that city upon a physician, who was first severely flogged, and then had one of his ears cut off! 1836 Philadelphia Visiter Aug. 13/1 As his honor told you, justice is sartain, no escaping Lynch Justice, as he calls it. 1844 B. Green Sketches Life J. G. Birney 7 Between eight and nine hundred of the people of the county..had associated together as a lynch club. 1917 Chicago Defender 1 Dec. 1/5 [He] walked from under the noose of the Florida lynch rope and is today a free man. 1955 Pittsburgh Courier 17 Sept. 1/7 Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of lynch-victim Emmett Till, asked this reporter: [etc.]. 1966 L. Pitt Decline Californios iv. 73 The town's leading politician thereupon inaugurated a lynch court, and a jury of twelve community leaders, ignoring the plea of justifiable homicide, voted to hang Barclay. 1996 O. G. Davidson Best of Enemies (2007) 131 Instead of the gun or the lynch rope, they reached for the telephone. 2014 Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 41 ‘Law and order has to be maintained and not lynch justice,’ a police spokesman said. < as lemmas |
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