Altogether 363 pre-emptive selections in respect of as many runs were made.
The principle of compensation was recognised in these leasing Acts, but no provision was made for the continuance of the pre-emptive right of purchase, conferred by the old Orders in Council.
In view of their pre-emptive right, the Government have been bound, in justice to the Maoris, to make provision for the purchase of such lands as may be offered to them, though they have not herein initiated a new policy.
The pre-emptive right to the remainder was bought by Robert Morris in the spring of 1791.
The object was to buy the Indian title, as they had already brought the pre-emptive right.
Robert Morris, the distinguished financier of the Revolution, afterward became owner of the greater part of this purchase, as well as of the pre- emptive right of Massachusetts to the remaining part of Western New York.
Massachusetts reserved this right in the sale of her pre-emptive title.
The Congo, annexed to a weak State, would be a prey far easier to capture later on than if it had been added to the French empire in Africa, on the strength of the pre-emptive right which King Leopold allowed France to retain.
At the last moment, he even demanded the cession to Germany of the preferential or pre-emptive right possessed by France over the territories of the old Congo Free State.
Applications were made at that time for the establishment of the pre-emptive system; but without effect, and, apparently without the prospect of eventual success.
The pre-emptive right was finally abrogated in the Native Land Act of 1862.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emptive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
