Precedence: The right to precede or to go before; to take precedence means the privilege of going ahead of, rather than after; to consider first.
Preclude: 1. To make impossible; to stop; to prevent. 2. To exclude; to rule out.
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The law which has precedence, where there is a conflict of laws, to dispose of an action.
A new branch of law developed known as "equity", with their decisions eventually gaining precedence over those of the common law courts.
The electors were arranged in order of precedence thus: the archbishops of Mainz, of Trier and of Cologne, the king of Bohemia, qui inter electores laicos ex regiae dignitatis fastigio jure et merito obtinet primatiam, ...
in land and air traffic and in sea navigation, rules that determine precedence in the use of traffic lanes. The rules are framed in the simplest possible terms and with nearly absolute uniformity in order to minimize the possibility of collisions.
Train of Superior Class: A train given precedence by time table.
Train of Superior Direction: A train given precedence in the direction specified in the time table as between opposing trains of the same class.
(n) Doctrine of Race to the courthouse establishes the precedence of the documents, deed, mortgage, lien, judgments etc have on the documents subsequently recorded with the country recorder records, ...
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: a lien taking precedence over all other claims, charges, or encumbrances of the same general category but not necessarily over those (as taxes) imposed by government sanction
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priority pl: -ties : precedence in exercise of rights in the same subject matter [secured interests have over unsecured ones] ...
In Byzantium, secular and sacred law were somewhat intermingled, with secular law taking precedence. In Western Europe, however, religious and secular law were separate bodies.
Just as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure placed law and equity under the same jurisdiction in 1938, the 1966 rules subsumed admiralty. Nonetheless, the Supplemental Admiralty Rules take precedence over the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in the ...
257, directs that all writs and process issuing from the supreme or a circuit court, shall bear teste of the chief justice of the supreme court, or if that office be vacant, of the associate justice next in precedence; ...
of time, at common law, will not prevent the sovereign from asserting a right; laches cannot be alleged against the state.
Prior tempore, prior jure. Earlier in time, stronger in right. First time in, first in right. Priority gives precedence.
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