Terms vs Preemptioner - What's the difference?
terms | preemptioner |
One who possesses the right of .
* 1877 : William Wallace Beach, The Indian Miscellany: containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts, languages, religions… , p118
* 1888 : James M. Hutchings, In the Heart of the Sierras: Chapter XII: Congressional and State Enactments Concerning Yosemite , Rulings of the Supreme Courts
* 1917 : Gertrude S. Mathews & James T. DuBois, Galusha A. Grow, Father of the Homestead Law , p210
As nouns the difference between terms and preemptioner
is that terms is while preemptioner is one who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.preemptioner
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Alternative forms
* pre-emptioner * preemptionerNoun
(en noun)- …the modern preëmptioner looks with jealousy at the stranger, and imagines that the corners of sections, quarter sections, and forty acre tracts, exite his curiosity, or awaken the avarice of the speculating land hunter…
- “If a qualified preëmptioner enter upon a portion of the public domain, with the intention to preëmpt the same, and performs all the acts necessary to perfect his preëmptive right, except the payment of the purchase price, the government may, nevertheless, at any time before the price is actually paid, or tendered, devote the land to another purpose, and thereby wholly defeat the right of preëmption.” — California Reports, July, 1871, Vol. 41, pp. 658-9.
- Green himself was reactionary, a preëmptioner who wanted strengthening of these laws alone.
References
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