(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
a flexible constitutional principle
Procedures followed by law enforcement and courts to insure the protection of an individual's rights as assigned by the Constitution.
A general principle of law which guarantees that certain procedures must be followed before a person’s rights or property can be taken away.
This is a right guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution against unfair action by the national government and later extended by the Fourteenth Amendment against unfair state action. Initially it referred to certain prescribed procedures that had to be followed in arriving at a governmental action; but after the Civil War it came to mean that the very substance of a regulatory action had to meet some standard of fairness as well.
The requirement found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution that no persons in the United States be deprived of life, liberty or property by any level of government unless procedures designed to safeguard their rights have been followed. In addition to other rights found in the U. S. Constitution and other laws, due process includes the right of a defendant to be notified of the charge against him or her and to be granted a fair hearing on that charge.
Due Process is the principle of fairness in all legal matters. Legal procedures set statutes and court practice, including notice of rights, which must be adhered to so that no prejudice occurs. Due Process safeguards private and public rights against unfairness.
The exercise of the powers of the government under safeguards to protect the rights of the individual. Procedural due process is the right to have notice of all charges against you and to be given an opportunity to be head and to defend yourself in an orderly proceeding. Substantive due process protects your rights to marry, contract, pursue a chosen vocation/education, etc. The right to due process is protected by the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Broadly defined as the constitutional guarantee that no person shall be arbitrarily or unreasonably deprived of life, liberty or property.
The right of all persons to receive the guarantees and safeguards of the law and the judicial process. It includes such constitutional requirements as adequate notice, assistance of counsel. and the rights to remain silent, to a speedy and public trial, to an impartial jury, and to confront and secure witnesses.
principle in the fifth amendment stating that the government must follow proper constitutional procedures in trials and other actions takes against individuals.
Those procedures which effectively guarantee individual rights in the face of criminal prosecution; the due course of legal proceedings according to the rules and forms which have been established for the protection of private rights; formal adherence to fundamental rules for fair and orderly legal proceedings.