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Preemption

noun

The judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject. Synonym: pre-emption.

The right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property). Synonym: pre-emption.

The right to purchase something in advance of others. Synonym: pre-emption.

A prior appropriation of something. Synonym: pre-emption.

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"Preemption" Quotes from Famous Books

... house, at our invitation, every Lord's day afternoon, till they could rebuild. They had a house about five miles in the country, and a large congregation. Nearly the whole community were Baptists, and they claimed a kind of preemption. We had not a member in the neighborhood. I was exceedingly anxious to hold a meeting in the very center of this stronghold, and thought that as they were using our house, they would grant me the use of theirs; ...

— Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel - and Selections from his Writings • Frank G. Allen

... also provided that the President may, for settlement in the manner prescribed by section four of the act to which this is an amendment, reserve from sale or settlement, under the homestead or preemption laws, public lands in Florida, Mississippi, and Arkansas, not to exceed three million acres of good land in all, the rental named in that section to be determined in such manner as the commissioner shall by regulation prescribe. It proposes to confirm and make valid the possessory titles ...

— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

Words linked to "Preemption" : jurisprudence, appropriation, law, judicial principle, judicial doctrine, preempt, subscription right, preemptive right, right, legal principle, legal right