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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

1.

Just; proper; regular; lawful; sufficient; as in the phrases “due care,” “due process of law,” “due notice.”

2.

Owing; payable; justly owed. That which one contracts to pay or perform to another; that which law or justice requires to be paid or done.

3.

Owed, or owing, as distinguished from payable. A debt is often said to be due from a person where he is the party owing it, or primarily bound to pay, whether the time for payment has or has not arrived.

4, Payable.

A bill or note is commonly said to be due when the time for payment of it has arrived.

6 Pet. 29, 36.