underdue

underdue

English

Etymology

under- +‎ due

Adjective

underdue (comparative more underdue, superlative most underdue)

1. Not having reached the deadline yet, especially something that is owing but not yet due.
   • 1885, United States Supreme Court Reports - Volume 22, page 299:

     If negotiable paper, underdue, be in the hands of a bona fide holder, any subsequent holder may avail himself of that fact against the equity of the maker.

   • 1886, ‎Frank Prentiss Deering, The Codes and Statutes of California, as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Twenty-Sixth Session of the Legislature, 1885, page 334:

     If a mortgagor, before the maturity of the note, conveys the mortgaged lands to a third person, and while the note is yet underdue gives an acknowledgement in writing to the holder that the note is a subsisting contract against him, and he thereafter accepts a conveyance from the third person of the lands before time has run on the note as extended, and thereafter, but while the note as extended is yet underdue, conveys the land to a stranger, the lands in the hands of this last grantee are affected by the written acknowledgment.

   • 2005, Ellen Wood, ‎(Mrs Henry Wood) & ‎Elisabeth Jay, East Lynne, →ISBN:

     There were many and and formidable claims; promissory notes and I O Us, overdue bills and underdue bills; heavy outstanding debts of all sorts, and trifles (comparatively speaking) for housekeeping, servants' liveries, out-door servants' wages, bread and meat.