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Due

Due [fr. du, Fr.], anything owing. That which one contracts to pay or perform to another; that which law or justice requires to be paid or done. It should be observed that a debt is said...

Allegiance

Allegiance [fr. ligo, Lat.], the natural, lawful, and faithful obedience which every subject owes to the supreme magistrate who oversteps not his prerogatives. It is either natural or perpetual, where one is

deficiency

: an amount that is lacking or inadequate: as a : the difference between the amount of tax owed and the amount of tax paid b : the difference between the amount owed under a security agreement

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Suit

By Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, suit includes action. (2) Suit of Court, an attendance which a tenant owes to his lord's Court. (3) Suit Covenant, where one has covenanted to do suit and service in his

special

single thing or class of things : having an individual character or trait [owed them a duty not owed to the public at large] 3 a : supplemental to the regular b : assigned or provided to

treason

treason [Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender] :

Attachment of debts

Attachment of debts. By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Order XLV., as amended by (English) R.S. C. July, 1902, r. 12, and R. S.C. July, 1905, r. 8, a judgment creditor may apply ex parte to the Court...

Debt

the same meaning in which it is used in, s. 60, C.P.C. Ordinarily, 'debt' means money that is owed; an existing obligation to pay certain amount; a sum of money due from one person to another, J.

Indebtedness

Indebtedness, means (1) The condition or state of owing money (2) something owed; a debt, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 771

Refugee

Refugee, to any person who owing to well founded fear of being persecuted for reason of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and...

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