Preferent

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Preferred or favoured. not-comparable

    "The proceeds of the estate shall be distributed, first to the preferent creditors, in the order in which they respectively succeed, and then the remainder among the concurrent creditors, by dividend; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    preferred above all others and treated with partiality wordnet

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"The proceeds of the estate shall be distributed, first to the preferent creditors, in the order in which they respectively succeed, and then the remainder among the concurrent creditors, by dividend; […]"

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