We found 2 definitions of due process of law from 2 different sources.
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due process of law - (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 | ||
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 |