DUE PROCESS OF LAW
Dictionary entry overview: What does due process of law mean?
• DUE PROCESS OF LAW (noun)
The noun DUE PROCESS OF LAW has 1 sense:
1. (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
Familiarity information: DUE PROCESS OF LAW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DUE PROCESS OF LAW (noun)
Meaning:
(law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
due process; due process of law
Hypernyms ("due process of law" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "due process of law"):
legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)
notification; presentment (an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative)
judgement; judgment; judicial decision ((law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it)
dispossession; eviction; legal ouster (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)
plea (an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed)
defence; defense; demurrer; denial (a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him)
