PRIVILEGE. In Civil Law. A right which the nature of a debt gives to a creditor, and which entitles him to be preferred before other creditors. La. Code, art. 3153 ; Dalloz, Diet. Privilege; Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 2, t. 1, s. 4, n. 1.
2. Creditors of the same rank of privi leges are paid in concurrence, that is, on an equal footing. Privileges may exist either in movables or immovables, or in both at once. They are general or special, on certain mova bles. The debts which are privileged on all the movables in general are the following, which are paid in this order. Funeral charges. Law charges, which are such as are occasioned by the prosecution of a suit before the courts. But this name applies more particularly to costs, which the party cast has to pay to the party gaining the cause. It is in favor of these only that the law grants the privilege. Charges, of what ever nature, occasioned by the last sickness. concurrently among those to whom they are due. See LAST SICKNESS. The wages of ser vanis for the year past, and so much as is due for the current year. Supplies of pro visions made to the debtor or his family during the last six months by retail dealers, such as bakers, butchers, grocers, and during the last year keepers of boarding-houses and taverns. The salaries of clerks, secreta ries, and other persons of that kind. Dotal ,righls, due t,o wives by their husbands.
3. The debts which are privileged on particular movables are—the debt of a work man or artisan, for the price of his labor, on the movable which he has repaired or made, if the thing continues still in his possession ; that debt on the pledge which is in the creditor's posaession ; the carrier's charges and accessoi7 expenses on the thing carried ; the price due on movable effects, if they are yet in the possession of the pur chaser ; and the like. See LIEN.
Creditors have a privilege on immovables or real estate in some cases, of which the following are instances:— the vendor, on the estate by him sold, for the payment of the price, or so much of it as is due, whether it be sold on or Without a credit; architects and contractors, bricklayers, and other workmen, employed in constructing. rebuild ing, or repairing houses, buildings, or mak ing other works on such houses, buildings, or works by them constructed, rebuilt, or repaired ; those who have supplied the owner with materials for the construction or repair of an edifice or other work, which he has erected or repaired out of the.se materials, on the edifice or other work constructed or re paired. La. Code, art. 3216.
See generally, as to privilege La. Code tit. 2'1 ; Code Civ. tit. 18; D'alloz, Diet.
PriViage; LIEN; LAST SICKNESS ; PREFER ENCE.
In Maritime Law. An allowance to the master of a ship of the general nature ‘‘ ith primage, being compensation, or rather a gratuity, customary in certain trades, and which the law assumes to be a fair and equi table allowance, because the contract on both sides is made under the knowledge of such usage by the parties.