DUE PROCESS OF LAW

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 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)

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 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)