preëmpt

present singular third person preëmpts · participle present preëmpting · participle past preëmpted · past preëmpted · alternative pre-empt · alternative preempt

1. Dated spelling of preempt.

   He was appointed probate judge by Governor Medary in 1859, and under the territorial laws it became his duty to preëmpt the townsite of Burlington, which he did, his predecessor, W. R. Saunders, having resigned to escape that duty.

   1912, Frank W. Blackmar, Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. — Volume III, Part 2, page 1329

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   …such as Koffka’s allusion ¹ to some lectures on personality by Wertheimer, one of the leaders of the Gestalt psychology, that not all its representatives share the circumscribed view that we must preëmpt the problem of perception in all its diversified phases before we can venture forth on any other task.²

   1999, Abraham Aaron Roback, The psychology of character: with a survey of personality in general, page 384

   Courts and arbitrators should therefore think twice before interpreting the Convention so expansively as to preëmpt domestic rules designed to provide parties to sales (and other) contracts with alternative bases of remedial relief.

   2003, Joseph Lookofsky, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law [13 Duke J. of Comp. & Int’l L. 0263]: In Dubio Pro Conventione? Some Thoughts About Opt-Outs, Computer Programs And Preëmption Under The 1980 Vienna Sales Convention (CISG), page 288