More Re: "Due Process" Not in OED

[Fred Shapiro]

My erroneous posting about "due process" is also another object lesson in
the pitfalls of online antedating performed without thinking about the
bibliographic details underlying the database.  I got the
pseudo-antedating by searching the Justis database, which covers U.K.
statutes from 1235 to the present but presents the earlier statutes in
translation.

Fred Shapiro


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