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    DUE PROCESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (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 safeguardsplay

    Synonyms:

    due process; due process of law

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    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)

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