1. The right of retainer is the right which the executor or administrator of a deceased person has to retain out of the assets sufficient to pay any debt due to him from the deceased in priority to the other creditors whose debts are of equal degrea 8 Steph. Comm. 263. Miller v. Irby, 63 Ala. 488; Taylor v. Deblois, 23 Fed. Cas. 765.