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TMI BlogWord `Due'X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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', from debere ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... laimed 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 that it is payable; in other words, it may mean tha ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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 amount due on and up to the date of the order of eviction; ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... pecified institution or any class or classes of institutions, and thereupon all the provisions of this Act shall be applicable to such recovery. ; After referring to Wharton in Law Lexicon and Black's Law Dictionary, it was held that the words `amounts due' in Section 71 did not include time barred debt. This Court, however, highlighted that in every case the exact meaning of the word `due ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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