preemptioner
nounEtymology From preemption + -er.
1
One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.
- 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 certificate1867, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Digest of the Reports of the United States Courts and Acts of Congress: