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Chose

debt, etc., is effectual in law (subject to equities having priority over the right of the assignee) to pass and transfer

Preferential or preference shares or stock

shares or stock, shares or stock in a company having priority as to payment of dividends of a fixed amount, and,

Precedence

Precedence, denotes the ceremonial order or priority to be observed on formal occasion; or a sight to

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Seniority-cum-merit

of administration, the senior though the less meritorious shall have priority. This will not violate Arts. 14, 16(1) and 16(2). State

Preferred

indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment. To give advantage, priority, or privilege; to select for first payment, as to prefer

Retainer of debts

Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 34 (2)] assets in priority to all other creditors of equal degree, and before the

Specialty debts

the administration of the estate of a deceased person in priority to simple contract debts; but this distinction was abolished by

Simple contract

by instrument under seal, called 'specialty debts,' but all such priority was abolished by the Administration of Estates Act, 1869, s.

Administrator

worded as to clear off any person possibly entitled in priority to a Grant and to show the capacity in which

Searches

days [(English) L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1926, s. 4; see also PRIORITY NOTICE]. At the Land Registry the application for search must

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