1. The rigbt of retainer- is the right which the executor or administrator of a deceased person has to retain outof the assets sufficient to pay any debt due to him from the deceased in priority to the other creditors whose debts are of equal degree^ 3 Steph. Comm. 263. Miller v. Irby, 63 Ala, 483; Taylor v. Deblois, 23 Fed. Cas. 765
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
