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Peremption vs Preemption - What's the difference?

peremption | preemption |

As nouns the difference between peremption and preemption

is that peremption is a quashing; a defeating while preemption is the purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.

peremption

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal, obsolete) A quashing; a defeating.
  • (Webster 1913)

    preemption

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic) * (archaic) * pre-emption *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
  • The purchase of public land by the occupant.
  • (computing) The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
  • (law) The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.