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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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Article 51 in no way covers imminent threats, and international law does not confer any legitimacy on the dangerous doctrine of preemption.
We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many.
He summarized much legal and philosophical argument by specifying four criteria of preemption as self-defense.
There is no sanction for preemption in the UN Charter, which allows for armed action only in cases of self-defence.
Except for the right of preemption of the acquirer which remains intangible and which even belongs to farms adjoining the plots for sale.
Difficulties concerning preemption have proven to be the biggest bugbear for Lewis's theory.

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