单词 | due process of law |
释义 | due process of law (once / 14206 pages) n WORD FAMILY due process of law: due process of laws, due processes of law USAGE EXAMPLESCivil libertarians say indefinitely holding such immigrants violates the 5th Amendment guarantee that “no person shall be … deprived of … liberty … without due process of law.” Los Angeles Times(Nov 29, 2016) The court said that the 14th Amendment, which guarantees due process of law, does not empower the government to “rob” someone’s citizenship. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) The Constitution’s due process clause protects all people, including immigrants, against deprivation of “life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” Washington Post(Nov 24, 2016) 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|Exp|Hypo|Hyper due process Bakke decision a ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action; the Court ruled in 1978 that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked notification, presentmentan 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 ousterthe expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law pleaan answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed defence, defense, demurrer, deniala defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him foreclosurethe legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default intervention(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings procedurea mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings action, action at law, legal actiona judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong case, causa, cause, lawsuit, suita comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy adoptiona legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit) appeal(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial reversala judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside affirmationa judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand bankruptcya legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent receivershipa court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all judicial proceeding, litigationa legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights naturalisation, naturalizationthe proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship cognovit judgement, cognovit judgment, confession of judgement, confession of judgmenta judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings default judgement, default judgment, judgement by default, judgment by defaulta judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court) non pros, non prosequitura judgment entered in favor of the defendant when the plaintiff has not continued his action (e.g., has not appeared in court) final decision, final judgmenta judgment disposing of the case before the court; after the judgment (or an appeal from it) is rendered all that remains is to enforce the judgment judgement in personam, judgment in personam, personal judgement, personal judgmenta judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages judgement in rem, judgment in rema judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject or property or thing (as opposed to one pronounced on persons) dismissal, judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissala judgment disposing of the matter without a trial judgement on the merits, judgment on the meritsjudgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented judgement on the pleadings, judgment on the pleadings, summary judgement, summary judgmenta judgment rendered by the court prior to a verdict because no material issue of fact exists and one party or the other is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law arbitrament, arbitration, arbitrementthe act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment opinion, rulingthe reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) findingthe decision of a court on issues of fact or law oustera wrongful dispossession actual evictionthe physical ouster of a tenant from the leased premises; the tenant is relieved of any further duty to pay rent retaliatory evictionan eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states trial(law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law review(law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) entrapmenta defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials hearing(law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence group action action taken by a group of people |
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