Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) due process
WordNet
n. (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 [syn: due process]
Usage examples of "due process of law".
Bastard or not, rapist or not, he was entitled to due process of law and a fair crack at defending himself.
Even though the sad fact of the matter is that due process of law is not always effective, frequently outside our borders, and, on rare occasions, inside them.
Even though the sad fact of the matter is that due process of law is not always effective, frequently outÂ.
The due process of law had wended its tedious way, and now four Blacks were on death row, as it was called, their appeals denied, and they were due to be executed within a month.
The Radiation Disaster Act authorizes euthanasia only after due process of law.
Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's Home Stone.
Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law.
Chase set about getting a timber grant for Devitt, but Jud had no plans to await due process of law or the long process of cutting Washington red tape.