Lynch Law

A term descriptive of the action of unofficial persons, organized bands, or mobs, who seize persons charged with or suspected of crimes, or take them out of the custody of the law, and inflict summary punishment upon them, without Jegal trial, and without the warrant or authority of law LYNDHURST’S (LORD) ACT. This statute (5 & 6 Wm. IV, c. 54) renders marriages within the prohibited degrees absolutely null and void. ‘heretofore such marriages were voidable merely.