NOUN
- the right to purchase something in advance of others
- the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
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a prior appropriation of something
the preemption of bandwidth by commercial interests - the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject
How To Use pre-emption In A Sentence
- Increased land sales and pre-emption laws (which authorised settlers to stake claims on most surveyed lands) had facilitated rapid settlement of the Midwest and the Old Southwest.
- Existing shareholders will have pre-emption rights.
- The argument that SB 1070 is unconstitutional is based on the doctrine of "pre-emption. Arizona's immigration law is no slam dunk | Scott Lemieux
- Is there a policy about pre-emption that we are prepared to apply consistently?
- Increased land sales and pre-emption laws (which authorised settlers to stake claims on most surveyed lands) had facilitated rapid settlement of the Midwest and the Old Southwest.
- In pre-emption articles, it is usual to find, as here, a permitted class of transferee or a provision for transfer to a non-member in the event that no existing member is willing to purchase the shares.
- Is there a policy about pre-emption that we are prepared to apply consistently?
- The table below shows how, as the Crown's policy of pre-emption took effect, the burden of providing revenue fell upon Maori to finance the colony's development.
- The right of pre-emption or exclusive purchase in the same article was used by the Crown to lawfully extinguish Maori customary title and thereby allow alienation.
- It was both a humanitarian intervention (toppling one of the world's most brutal dictators) and an act of self-defense ( "the administration's grandiose rhetoric about pre-emption" is merely a dysphemistic way of saying this). The Case for Inhumane Intervention
