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Perfect

to put (one's security) in a position or status having priority over subsequently perfected security interests or unperfected security interests by

Marshalling

arranging the assets so as to give effect to the priority of debts, as to legal assets on the one hand,

Magna Carta

satisfactory. It is the prerogative of the Crown to claim priority for taxes and penalties before all other creditors, and to

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Jus offerendi

the right to succeed to a senior creditor's lien and priority upon tendering the amount due to that creditor, Black's Law

Equitable mortgage

being given to the trustees in order to preserve the priority. As a rule these mortgages include mortgages (not being mortgages

Further advance, or charge

a prior mortgage so that the advance may rank in priority to subsequent mortgages, even if the further advance was made

Deposit

which does not require registration to establish its validity or priority of effect, see LAND CHARGES; NOTICE; RESCISSION; STAKEHOLDER. Includes deposit

Crown debts

Crown debts. It is a prerogative of the Crownto claim priority for its debts before all other creditors, and to recover

Coparceners or parceners

And the reason given is, that the former privilege of priority in choice upon a division arose from an act of

Commandery

with lands and tenements thereto appertaining, which belonged to the priority of St. John of Jerusalem, in England; he who had

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