Note 150 — THE CALIPH OMAR BIN AL-KHATTAB AND THE YOUNG BADAWI.

Hence Omar is entitled “Al-Adil” = the Just. Readers will remember that by Moslem law and usage murder and homicide are offences to be punished by the family, not by society or its delegates. This system reappears in civilisation under the denomination of “Lynch Law,” a process infinitely distasteful to lawyers (whom it abolishes) and most valuable when administered with due discretion.