Use "precedency" in a sentence

1. By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army ; but

2. No society, whether barbarous or civilized, has ever found it convenient to settle the rules of precedency of rank and subordination, according to those invisible qualities; but according to something that is more plain and palpable

3. Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency