law: Co-Operative Societies Act, 1912
  19. Prior claim of Society
  Subject to any prior claim of the
  
  6[Government] in respect of land-revenue or any money recoverable as
  
  land-revenue or of a landlord in respect of rent or any money recoverable as
  
  rent, a registered society shall be entitled in priority to other creditors to
  
  enforce any outstanding demand due to the society from a member or past member-
  
  
  (a) in respect of the supply of seed or manure
  
  or of the loan of money for the purchase of seed or manure-upon the crops or
  
  other agricultural produce of such member or person, at any time within
  
  eighteen months from the date of such supply or loan;
  (b) in respect of the supply of cattle, fodder
  
  for cattle, agricultural or industrial implements or machinery, or raw
  
  materials for manufacture, or of the loan of money for the purchase of any of
  
  the foregoing things -upon any such things so supplied, or purchased in whole
  
  or in part from any such loan, or on any articles manufactured from raw
  
  materials so supplied or purchased.