It is also known as jungle law or frontier justice.
Don't you be getting any ideas about frontier justice.
But the planned stuff, the frontier justice, the guys who are there to start fights, that's not sport.
"We don't need his brand of frontier justice to keep control of this situation."
Our own country replaced "frontier justice" with a system of laws and constitutional protections for sound reasons.
Maybe there was some form of frontier justice at work in this fateful moment of decision.
Miles was never charged, and no one has been arrested in this example of frontier justice.
In 1881, a 30-second gunfight helped create an American hero and a stirring myth of frontier justice.
In early 1924, in yet another instance of frontier justice, both men were acquitted of having shot the other.
Lynching and gunfighting are considered forms of frontier justice.