Preferential Assignment
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An assignment for the benefit of creditors, giving preferences (q. v.)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
An assignment for the benefit of creditors wherein certain of them are preferred.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An assignment of property for the benefit of creditors, made by an insolvent debtor, in which it is directed that a preference (right to be paid first in full) shall be given to a creditor or creditors therein named.