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- Preemption - n. - The act or right of purchasing before others.
- Preemption - n. - The privilege or prerogative formerly enjoyed by the king of buying provisions for his household in preference to others.
- Preemption - n. - 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.
- Preemptioner - n. - One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land.
- Section - n. - One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.