Word `Due'

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....ered or given; justly claimable; appropriate." Concise Oxford English Dictionary (10th Edition, Revised) explains `due' as follows : "DUE 7..................(of a person) at a point where something is owed or merited. required as a legal or moral obligation. 2 proper; appropriate................................. ORIGIN ME from OFr. deu `owed', based on L. debitus `owed&#39....

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....djective capable of being justly demanded; claimed as of right; owing and unpaid, remaining unpaid; payable; regular; formal; according to rule or form." Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law; 2nd Edition (Vol. 1) defines `due'; "`anything owing, that which one contracts to pay or perform to another. As applied to a sum of money, `due' means either that it is owing or th....

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....g in different statutes has come up for consideration before this Court. In Madan Mohan and Another v. Krishan Kumar Sood (1919) 1 I.R. Ch. D. 310 this Court while dealing with the expression `amount due' occurring in the third proviso to clause (i) of sub-section (2) of Section 14 of H.P. Urban Rent Control Act, 1987, held that the expression `amount due' in the context will mean the amou....