The Cairn
first call
also: first-called
The build-lease priority clause — the right to draw before the residents do.
In full
Started legal and ended bitter. The clause grants a leaseholder first call on berths and environmental allocation, and nobody outside a hearing ever says the full phrase: on the dock it became a verb almost immediately — we got first-called — which is how the station, and the reader, learn what it actually means.
Key facts
- A priority clause of the build-leases.
- The right to draw before the residents do.
- Became a verb almost immediately: to be first-called.
- Spoken in full only in hearings.