due process of law

Questions about due process of law

What does due process of law mean?

due process of law means "(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".

What is another word for due process of law?

Close synonyms include due process. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is due process of law a common word?

due process of law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.