Somewhere there might be a man who had a prior claim on her love.

This fact seemed, to his fierce selfishness, ground for a prior claim.

Many other sides of London life, in their view, had a prior claim.

As if mere prior claim was good enough reason to exploit something!

He invited them to help themselves to the plunder, subject to Jack's prior claim.

To see if there was any contact with a technically advanced species who had a prior claim on the planet.

"We have a prior claim on this rock," the first announced.

She says she has a prior claim as the biological mother.

But I think all of you have a prior claim on his hide.

Suppose someone else had filed a prior claim on the asteroid?