Preemptor

Definitions

1. Someone who preempts; especially one who appropriates public land.
2. One who preëmpts.

Equivalents

Examples

“If the preëmptor filed his claim⟳ one day or one week before he commenced his occupation, his claim⟳, as against the railroad company, is fraudulent.”

“In spite of this, whenever there was no convenient machinery for determining who was the rightful preëmptor the land⟳ title remained unsettled.”

“The municipal preëmptor, like⟳ the agricultural preëmptor, is required to take⟳ his land⟳ in conformity with “the legal subdivisions of the public lands”. I apprehend the import of the requirement is the same in both cases. Neither class of preëmptors is to break⟳ the legal subdivisions as surveyed. The preëmptor of either case may take⟳ fractional sections if he will, but he is in every case to run⟳ his extreme lines with the lines of the surveyed subdivisions.”

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