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2006 Code of Virginia § 18.2-39 - "Lynching" defined
18.2-39. "Lynching" defined.
Any act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person, which shall resultin the death of such person, shall constitute a "lynching."
(Code 1950, 18.1-28; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)
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