preëmptor

plural preëmptors · alternative pre-emptor · alternative preemptor

1. One who preëmpts.

   In spite of this, whenever there was no convenient machinery for determining who was the rightful preëmptor the land title remained unsettled.

   1931, Theodore Christian Blegen et al., Minnesota History, page 85

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   If the preëmptor filed his claim one day or one week before he commenced his occupation, his claim, as against the railroad company, is fraudulent.

   1873, D. C. Cloud, Monopolies and the People, page 179

   The municipal preëmptor, like the agricultural preëmptor, is required to take his land in conformity with “the legal subdivisions of the public lands”. I apprehend the import of the requirement is the same in both cases. Neither class of preëmptors is to break the legal subdivisions as surveyed. The preëmptor of either case may take fractional sections if he will, but he is in every case to run his extreme lines with the lines of the surveyed subdivisions.

   1975, C. C. Andrews, Minnesota and Dacotah, page 214