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 "
1 Foster thought this was frontier justice and urged another objection.
2 Quinn, a passionate advocate for the mentally ill, and Bo, the defense attorney with a unique sense of frontier justice .
3 They 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."
1 True, one can detect a taste for vigilante justice in many pictures.
2 Any watchdog effort is relegated to the realm of virtual vigilante justice .
3 He didn't regret the kill; it hadn't been an act of vigilante justice .
4 Smith said he left New Zealand to escape the " vigilante justice system".
5 It's not perfect, but vigilante justice is not the answer.
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