Lynch Law, the name given in America to the trial and punishment of offenders without form of law, or by mob law; derived from the name of a man Lynch, dubbed Judge, who being referred to used to administer justice in the far West in this informal way.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Lyly, John * Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron