DUE PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does due process mean? 

• DUE PROCESS (noun)
  The noun DUE PROCESS 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 used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUE PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

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" 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"):

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)

 Context examples 

Tut, tut! it is the due process of the law.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)