Preemptioner

Pre`emp´tion`er


n.1.One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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decide that when a preemptioner enters upon the unsurveyed public lands, under the sanction of a public law, and makes improvements and becomes a bona fide settler, he acquires such rights as the Government cannot divest or take from him." The judge also forbade Hutchings ejection because of the California state legislation.
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Speaking to the legalities, he reasoned that "when a preemptioner enters upon the unsurveyed public lands, under the sanction of a public law, and makes improvements and becomes a bona fide settler, he acquires such rights as the Government cannot divest or take from him." (24)
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1841."(31) And that act declares that a preemptioner must be either a citizen of the United States or a person who had declared his intention to become a citizen, as required by the naturalization laws.
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