Sentence examples for prior right from inspiring English sources
The first written law of succession, dating from this coronation, established primogeniture in principle and the prior right of legitimate royal sons to the crown.
The last-named company now insists that it has the prior right to occupy and use the ca non for its line of road.
A concerned male bystander had walked by the caddies a few minutes prior, right before the storm hit, and told them they should head into the clubhouse for shelter.
Much will also depend on whether he can do a deal with the Ruia family, which claims it has a prior right to buy Hutchison's stake and could make life difficult for any unwelcome newcomer.
In the valuable Pearl Fisheries he claims to have a prior right to all pearls above a certain value, although the finder is entitled to a relative bounty from the Sultan.
But in the narrow portions of the defile, where this course is impracticable, the court, by proper orders, should recognize the prior right of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company to construct its road.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles tried to bridge this divide with a makeover, morphing from his prior right-wing incarnation into Venezuela's Lula in his presidential campaigns, praising Chávez's social programs and promising to expand them.
Structured this way, the agreement implicitly acknowledges the inventors' prior rights.From stem cells to alternative energy production, we live in an era of technological innovation.
In almost all cases, such activities take place in forests that are owned, used, or managed by local people (smallholders, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, etc). holding prior rights to lands and resources, and have impacts on surrounding forest-dependent communities.
L. 109 8, § 406(2), inserted "and subject to the prior rights of holders of security interests in such goods or the proceeds of such goods" after "consent of a creditor".
So far as appears they made no inquiry, but relied on the absence of any excepting clause in Pollock's certificate and patent, neither of which could bind the company or affect its prior rights.
