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What is a preemption?

What is a preemption? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
  2. The purchase of public land by the occupant.
  3. (computing) The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
  4. (law) The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.
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We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many.
This does not apparently amount to a right of preemption, and it is not easy to estimate its effective practical consequences.
Did he decide to hear every preemption case that comes over the transom?
Except for the right of preemption of the acquirer which remains intangible and which even belongs to farms adjoining the plots for sale.
So like preemption, in today's supercharged political climate, unilateralism and multilateralism no longer convey any meaning.
Article 51 in no way covers imminent threats, and international law does not confer any legitimacy on the dangerous doctrine of preemption.

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