"Due Process" Not in OED

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Mar 21 15:50:48 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:42:21AM -0500, Baker, John wrote:
> Fred,
>
>         Are you sure this isn't a later translation?  Aren't most
> statutes from this period in Latin?

I don't know anything about law, but I know that there's
no way what Fred posted was written in English in 1344.

The OED does need _due process_ though, I'd agree.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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