Preemption

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preemption \Pre*["e]mp"tion\ (?; 215), n. [Pref. pre- + emption:
     cf. F. pr['e]emption. See {Redeem}.]
     The act or right of purchasing before others. Specifically:
     (a) The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king
         of buying provisions for his household in preference to
         others. [Eng.]


     (b) 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. --Abbott.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pre-emption
       n 1: the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal
            over state legislation on the same subject [syn: {preemption}]
       2: the right of a government to seize or appropriate something
          (as property) [syn: {preemption}]
       3: the right to purchase something in advance of others [syn: {preemption}]
       4: a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of
          bandwidth by commercial interests" [syn: {preemption}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  preemption
       n 1: the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal
            over state legislation on the same subject [syn: {pre-emption}]
       2: the right of a government to seize or appropriate something
          (as property) [syn: {pre-emption}]
       3: the right to purchase something in advance of others [syn: {pre-emption}]
       4: a prior appropriation of something; "the preemption of
          bandwidth by commercial interests" [syn: {pre-emption}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "preemption":
     adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, colonization,
     conquest, emption, enslavement, first option, first refusal,
     indent, occupation, option, preoccupation, prepossession, refusal,
     requisition, right of emption, right of preemption, subjugation,
     takeover, taking over, usurpation
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PRE-EMPTION, intern. law. The right of preemption is the right of a nation 
  to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or 
  seas, in order to afford to her subjects the preference of purchase. 1 Chit. 
  Com. Law, 103; 1 Bl. Com. 287. 
       2. This right is sometimes regulated by treaty. In that which was made 
  between the United States and Great Britain, bearing date the 10th day of 
  November, 1794, ratified in 1795, it was agreed, art. 18, after mentioning 
  that the usual munitions of war, and also naval materials should be 
  confiscated as contraband, that "whereas the difficulty of agreeing on 
  precise cases in which alone provisions and other articles not generally 
  contraband may be regarded as such, renders it expedient to provide against 
  the inconveniences and misunderstandings which might thence arise. It is 
  further agreed that whenever any such articles so being contraband according 
  to the existing laws of nations, shall for that reason be seized, the same 
  shall not be confiscated, but the owners thereof shall be speedily and 
  completely indemnified; and the captors, or in their default, the government 
  under whose authority they act, shall pay to the masters or owners of such 
  vessel the full value of all articles, with a reasonable mercantile profit 
  thereon, together with the freight, and also the damages incident to such 
  detention." See Mann. Com. B. 3, c. 8. 
       3. By the laws of the United States the right given to settlers of 
  public lands, to purchase them in preference to others, is called the 
  preemption right. See act of L. April 29, 1830, 4 Sharsw. Cont. of Story, U. 
  S. 2212.