As for major investment project, our position is based on the primacy of the law.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

Even the existence of court-like institutions, dealing in particular with marital and property issues, caused little fuss as long as everybody involved recognised the absolute primacy of the law of land.

ECONOMIST: Faith, law and democracy: Defining the limits of exceptionalism | The

If the wishes of the deceased have primacy, then in law they are surely only indicated in one way and one way only, that is, whether the individual had signed a form to opt out of allowing their organs to be donated after their death?

BBC: Organ donation and family matters