Lynch Law
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A term descriptive of the action of unofficial persons, organised 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 legal trial, and without the warrant or authority of law.
See State v. Aler, 39 W. Va. 549, 20 S. E. 585; Bates' Ann. St. Ohio, 1904, § 4426.