Due
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Just and proper. A due presentment and demand of payment must be made.
See 4 Rawle (Pa.) 307; 3 Leigh (Va.) 389; 3 Cranch (U. S.) 300.
What ought to be paid; what may be demanded; payable.
7 N. Y. 476.
It differs from "owing" in this, that sometimes what is owing is not due. A note payable thirty days after date is owing immediately after it is delivered to the payee, but it is not due until the thirty days have elapsed; but it has been held synonymous with "owing."
31 Mich. 219.
It may mean either "owing" or "payable," according to the context.
2 Ch. Div. 101.