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due process
n.
An established course for judicial proceedings or other governmental activities designed to safeguard the legal rights of the individual.
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Noun | 1. | 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 group action - action taken by a group of people 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 judicial decision, judgment, judgement - (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it dispossession, legal ouster, 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 demurrer, denial, defence, defense - a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
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due process
n (Jur)
due process (of law) (US) → ordentliches Gerichtsverfahren
due process of law → ordnungsgemäßes Verfahren
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