Posteriority
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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 ancient landlord by priority, and from the other by posteriority.
2 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; and the last are posterior liens, and are not entitled to payment until the former have been satisfied.