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Priority date

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Preseance

Priority of place in sitting

Registration of title of land

(x) Certain over-riding incidents [s. 70 (3)]. (xi) Notice of lien by deposit of certificate (s. 66). (xii) Priority notices (s. 88). (xiii) Notices to a sole trustee of registered land (s. 99). The priority of these

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Dearle v. Hall

takes its name from this case, reported 1823, 3 Russ. 1, originated with the bankruptcy rule conferring the priority of assignments of choses in action according to the date of notice to the debtor by the assignment,

cut-off date

applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa interview in any given month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview for a given month. Applicants with

Equity of redemption

itself be mortgaged, and before 1926, each incumbrancer of the equity of redemption had preference according to his priority in time. Before 1926, the following dangers and disadvant-ages attended this species of security:- A prior mortgagee might

lien

or equitable process (as judgment, levy, attachment, or execution) ju·nior lien : a lien that is lower in priority relative to other liens landlord's lien : a lien against the goods and valuables of a tenant to

Caution

purposes. Cautions to protect unregistered mortgages under s. 106 of the (English) L. R. Act, 1925, confer a priority for the mortgage. Other cautions do not affect priority. See Fortescue ' Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the (English)

Yorkshire Registry Act, 1884

4, and 6 Anne, c. 20) Ridings of the County of York, for the purpose of giving them priority according to the date of registration irrespectively of notice aliunde (s. 14) (see NOTICE); and Battison v. Hobson,

Debt

known as 'Hinde Palmer's Act'), special contract debts, as by bonds, covenants, and other instruments under seal, took priority over debts by simple contract; but this Act abolished that distinction as to priority. As to attachment of

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