Meaning of preëmptioner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who possesses the right of preëmption over certain land; compare: preëmptor.
2. One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.

Examples

“…the modern preëmptioner looks with jealousy at the stranger, and imagines that the corners of sections, quarter sections, and forty acre tracts, exite his curiosity, or awaken the avarice of the speculating land hunter…”

““If a qualified preëmptioner enter upon a portion of the public domain, with the intention to preëmpt the same, and performs all the acts necessary to perfect his preëmptive right, except the payment of the purchase price, the government may, nevertheless, at any time before the price is actually paid, or tendered, devote the land to another purpose, and thereby wholly defeat the right of preëmption.” — California Reports, July, 1871, Vol. 41, pp. 658-9.”

“Green himself was reactionary, a preëmptioner who wanted strengthening of these laws alone.”

“A title under a preemption claim ,writing to pay to the preemptioner a sum of Held, better than one claimed through a New money as a part of the price for which the Madrid certificate”

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