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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.