Ayres v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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• interpreting section 14-836(b)(l)(i), and holding that “a [recorded] right of first refusal, while a valuable interest in property, does not, in common parlance, come within the ambit of ‘record title holder’ ”
• “[0]ur goal is to ascertain ... the intention of the legislature [Unambiguous ... words will be accorded their ordinary meaning.” (citation omitted)
• “[A preemptive right] is an interest in property, and not merely a contractual right, whereby the preemptioner acquires an equitable right in the property, which vests only when the property owner decides to sell.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).