underdue

Adjective

underdue (comparative more underdue, superlative most underdue)

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