preemptioner

See also: preëmptioner

English

Etymology

preemption +‎ -er

Noun

preemptioner (plural preemptioners)

One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.
- 1867, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Digest of the Reports of the United States Courts and Acts of Congress:
  A title under a preemption claim ,writing to pay to the preemptioner a sum of Held, better than one claimed through a New money as a part of the price for which the Madrid certificate

References

“preemptioner”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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