pre-emption

pre-emption
1. the right of buying before anyone else.
2. in international law, the right of a state to buy the property of another power in transit over its territory (or allow its own nationals to buy it).
3. in the USA, laws passed from 1841 onward allowing settlers to acquire title to public land.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.

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