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Preemption   /prˌiˈɛmpʃən/   Listen
Preemption

noun
1.
The judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject.  Synonym: pre-emption.
2.
The right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property).  Synonym: pre-emption.
3.
The right to purchase something in advance of others.  Synonym: pre-emption.
4.
A prior appropriation of something.  Synonym: pre-emption.





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"Preemption" Quotes from Famous Books



... legislation of Congress in relation to another branch of the subject. Many who have not the ability to buy at present prices settle on those lands with the hope of acquiring from their cultivation the means of purchasing under preemption laws from time to time passed by Congress. For this encroachment on the rights of the United States they excuse themselves under the plea of their own necessities; the fact that they dispossess nobody and only enter upon the waste domain: that they give additional ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various


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


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