His own children have a prior claim to the business.

【prior】他自己的孩子可以优先获得这家企业。

She understood now that every word and every reticence was an avowal of Annabel Balch's prior claim.

她现在明白， 每一个字和每一个沉默都是对安娜贝尔巴尔奇先前主张的公开承认。