Posteriority
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Being or coming after. It is a word of comparison, the correlative of which is priority: as, when a man holds lands from two landlords, he holds from his auclent landlord by priority, and from the other by posteriority.
Co. 2d Inst. 392.
These terms, priority and posteriority, are also used in cases of liens: the first are prior liens, and are to be paid in the first place; the last are posterior liens, and are not entitled to payment until the former have been satisfied.