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Preferential

Giving indicating or having a preference or precedence as a preferential claim preferential shares

In preference by choice

people were for a long time governed, and which were preferred to all others, Jac. Law Dict.

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creditors. See (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 42; and FRADULENT PREFERENCES; VOLUNTARY CONVEYANCES.

ultim' voluntati. Co. Litt. 185 b.-(The right of survivorship is preferred to the last will.)

Jura public anteferenda privatis [Lat.], Public rights are to be preferred to private.

courtesy attaches to this estate, for the jus accescendi is preferred to all charges and incumbrances which do not amount to

[Lat.], in an ambiguous law, that signification is to be preferred which is consonant with equity, especially when the spirit of

takes place in the Lords which adjudicates upon the charge preferred, Parlia-mentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 107.

and finally decided or, where no appeal or revision is preferred, until the period of limitation prescribed for such appeal or

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