Due
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.