But the claims do not grant preferential rights to particular addresses.

Ninth are debts due to members who hold preferential rights.

"Or you may want preferential rights to any vacancies in the building.

New York has a preferential right to purchase with a waiting period that could take a year to get the approval."

And zero shareholders have preferential rights to trusts' assets when they are wound up.

It gives the beneficiary of the security interest certain preferential rights in the disposition of secured assets.

Most notably it abolished the Crown's preferential right to recover unpaid taxes ahead of other creditors.

No special draft would be held for a "near-disaster"; the team would instead get preferential rights on any waivers until the end of the season.

The company received 99-year mineral exploitation rights on one third of the land and preferential rights for twenty years on the remainder.

It needs state permission because under the Federal Transportation Law the railroad must offer preferential rights to the state, then to lower levels of government.

Many local authorities in Nigeria give preferential rights, for example to education and employment, to communities that are judged to be the original inhabitants of an area.

They specified things like increased severance pay, company-financed job retraining, preferential rights to be rehired and early-retirement benefits.

"America knows that we're tired of preferential rights and treatments that are unjustified under the current case law," Mr. Hatch said.

"This man has spent a lifetime pushing preferential rights - preferential group rights over individual rights," Mr. Hatch said.

All debts for the purpose of entitlement to interest under this section rank equally, ie preferential debts do not have preferential rights to interest.

Shareholders - the involvement of shareholders with voting or preferential rights can make it more complicated for an outside investor or buyer to take over the business.

The Nigerian government was also criticized last week for starting a new auction round for oil-exploration licenses, granting preferential rights to Chinese and Indian companies.

The king reserved the preferential right to purchase precious metals, gold and lot for two stacks and talent of silver for three and a half stack.

The responsibility of parents is also mentioned in the General Declaration of Human Rights - parents have a preferential right to choose the type of education for their children.

The qualifying investment must consist of ordinary shares with no preferential rights which are not eligible shares under the Business Expansion Scheme ( "BEs" ) provisions.

It is likely that the irrigators near the headworks, or their ancestors, did contribute more to the construction and maintenance of the works than the others, and therefore acquired the preferential rights.

The State Department of Transportation gave its preferential rights to Westchester County, said the agency's parkway coordinator, Nicholas Pucino, "because we are interested in preserving the parkway's character."

It is not yet clear whether former shareholders, including J. P. Morgan and other American investors, will be allowed to exercise preferential rights in the stock issue, as is usually the case.

A preferential creditor (in some jurisdictions called a preferred creditor) is a creditor receiving a preferential right to payment upon the debtor's bankruptcy under applicable insolvency laws.

A mining claim grants the holder with the preferential right to extract the valuable minerals within the claim, and for uses incident to that goal, such as prospecting, exploration and development.