DUE

Definitions

1. 1. That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. Tennyson.
2. 2. Right; just title or claim. The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. Milton.