Preemption is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREEMPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or right of purchasing before others
• the act or right of claiming or purchasing before or in preference to others.
• The act or right of purchasing before others.
• The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.
• The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.
• the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
• the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
• the right to purchase something in advance of others
• a prior appropriation of something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the right of purchasing before others; one given by the government to the actual settler upon a tract of public land; the purchase of something under this right

Words related to PREEMPTION

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Words that contain PREEMPTION

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How to use PREEMPTION in a sentence

• By the courtesy of the Fisheries, the planting of a harpoon in the vitals of a Right whale gives the planter a pre-emption claim to it.
• The preemption and timber culture laws were repealed in 1891.
• I recommend that the benefits of our land laws and preemption system be extended to the people of Utah by the establishment of a land office in that Territory.
• The bill creates an unjust distinction between persons claiming the benefit of the preemption laws.
• She felt that it would be a very good thing in this case to assert some sort of a preemption claim.
• Beside the right to 400 acres, there was also a preemption right to 1,000 acres more adjoining to be secured by a land-office warrant.
• I did not have them pay taxes yet, as I did not know whether the land is surveyed and open for pre-emption.
• Here and there Charlton noticed the little claim-shanties, built in every sort of fashion, mere excuses for pre-emption.
• Of course there were some customs in regard to pre-emption that Plausaby thought no good man could approve.
• I have used my pre-emption right, or I would take that myself.
• The liberties of his Country being nearly established he devoted himself to his farm on the first pre-emption and settlement granted in Kentucky.
• All the timber and waterpower of Deep Spring Valley had been taken up for the company under the general and local preemption and mining laws.
• Preemption rights on such a scale to private corporations are unequal and hostile to the policy and principles which sanction preemption laws.
• With this end in view, all vexatious or unnecessary restrictions imposed upon them by the existing preemption laws should be repealed or modified.
• If the right of preemption be thus extended, it will embrace a large and meritorious class of our citizens.
• In disposing of these lands, I recommend that the right of preemption be secured and liberal grants made to the early emigrants who have settled or may settle upon them.
• But the Maccabee, with the girl uppermost in his mind, believed that his cousin was inwardly resenting his preemption of the pretty stranger.
• To check this tendency a preference right of purchase was given to settlers on the land, a plan which culminated in the general preemption act of 1841.

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