Priority
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
A legal precedence or preference; as in saying that certain debts are paid in priority to others, or that certain incumbrances of an estate are allowed priority over others; that is, they are to be allowed to satisfy their claims out of the estate before the others can be admitted to any share therein, &c.
2.
In old English law, an antiquity of tenure, in comparison with one not so ancient.
Cowel.