Noun

• S: (n) due process, 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)
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• S: (n) proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)
• S: (n) presentment, notification (an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative)
• S: (n) judgment, judgement, judicial decision ((law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it)
• S: (n) eviction, dispossession, legal ouster (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)
• S: (n) plea (an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed)
• S: (n) defense, defence, denial, demurrer (a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him) "he gave evidence for the defense"
• domain category
• S: (n) 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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) group action (action taken by a group of people)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• has instance
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term