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Attendant term

assigned, which being the elder title would have taken the priority in point of legal effect. Hence the expression 'protecting against

simultaneous death act

where the title to or transfer of property depends on priority of death. In general, for determining the disposal of property,

Abatement

payment of the debts they abate in proportion, unless a priority is specially given to any particular legacy. A testator is

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notice

in which a party having an interest in property has priority over any earlier unrecorded claims of which the party had

prime

2 : general contractor vt primed prim·ing : to have priority over [a perfected security interest s an unperfected one]

preference system

and sisters of U.S. citizens. The employment-based preferences are: 1) priority workers (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and

preference

which payments to creditors are not voidable preferences. 3 : priority

prefer

pre·ferred pre·fer·ring 1 : to give (a creditor or debt) priority or preference [any preferred charges such as child support or

patent

the invention and to establish an earlier filing date and priority of the invention. A regular patent application must be made

office action

application. There are several types of Office actions: examiner's amendments, priority actions, non-final Office actions, final Office actions, and suspension inquiry

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