uch an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others, The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity, In the civil law, a lien or priority of right of payment, such as the artisans' privilege, corresponding to the common-law lien of a bailee or the lien under mechanics' lien-laws, carriers' privilege, inn-keepers' privilege, etc.