The (unlawful) retaliation for an injustice that the affected person carries out himself.
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Examples for "frontier justice"
Examples for "frontier justice"
1Foster thought this was frontier justice and urged another objection.
2Quinn, a passionate advocate for the mentally ill, and Bo, the defense attorney with a unique sense of frontier justice.
3They threw at and near batters regularly with a frontier justice mentality, the kind of machismo that mostly had disappeared from the game.
4"I'll settle for frontier justice and getting the hell away."
1True, one can detect a taste for vigilante justice in many pictures.
2Any watchdog effort is relegated to the realm of virtual vigilante justice.
3He didn't regret the kill; it hadn't been an act of vigilante justice.
4Smith said he left New Zealand to escape the " vigilante justice system".
5It's not perfect, but vigilante justice is not the answer.