Definition of due process Due process
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What does due process mean?
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| due process - (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 | ||
| due process of law | ||
| group action action taken by a group of people | ||
| jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
| legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | ||
| notification, presentment a request for payment; "the notification stated the grace period and the penalties for defaulting" | ||
| judicial decision, judgement, judgment the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants" | ||
| legal ouster, dispossession, eviction 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 | ||
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