Prime
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Fr. In French law. The price of the risk assumed by an insurer; premium of insurance.
Emerig.
Traite des Assur. c.
3, § 1, nn.
1, 2. v. To stand first or paramount to take precedence or priority of; to outrank; as, in the sentence "taxes prime all other liens."