A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trlal of a person accused of crime and the lnfllc-tlon of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where an-dently this form of private Justlce was prac-tlsed by the free burghers in tHe case of per-sons accused of stealing; also called “gibbet law.”
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
