preemptioner
See also: preëmptioner
English
editEtymology
editFrom preemption + -er.
Noun
editpreemptioner (plural preemptioners)
- One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.
- 1867, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Digest of the Reports of the United States Courts and Acts of Congress:
- 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
References
edit- “preemptioner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.