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squatter

1. a person who occupies property or land to which he has no legal title

2. (in Australia)

a. (formerly) a person who occupied a tract of land, esp pastoral land, as tenant of the Crown

b. a farmer of sheep or cattle on a large scale

3. (in New Zealand) a 19th-century settler who took up large acreage on a Crown lease

Squatter

a farmer who seizes unsettled land without receiving permission to do so. Squatting was widespread in the British colonies of North America and, later, in the USA (until 1862), as well as in Australia and certain other countries. The practice was possible owing to the vast amount of available unsettled land. The practice was an important precondition for the development of rural capitalism following the farm economy line. [23–1491–]

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The procedure should be able to identify the real from the professional squatters.

Squatting problem and its social ills

Last November, squatters were evicted from Chorlton Baths after filling up the swimming pool and bringing the sauna back into use.

Group of squatters thrown out of city centre office block; police on stand-by as 15 people are evicted from building in upmarket shopping street

In squatter communities, sanitation and cleanliness is wanting, sickness, crime and drugs are rampant.

Historical roots of urban squatting

Squatters had put cooking gas tanks on the railing of a first-floor balcony, apparently ready to be opened to be used as makeshift flamethrowers, or dropped onto the square, Reuters photographers said on Wednesday.

Clashes in Rome as police evict refugee squatters from square

The determination of priority and superiority of possession is a serious and urgent matter that cannot be left to the squatters to decide.

The rights of an informal settler

Applied to the context of squatting, I argue that squatters enter into a political conflict with the state and landowners who enforce the rights of the propertied above the property-less.

The politics of the crowbar: Squatting in London, 1968-1977

4 Squatters were among those who became part of this teleological trajectory towards full citizenship.

Everyday politics and collective mobilization against foreigners in a South African shack settlement

Seven Buddhist monks say will help squatters to get a solution

Buddhist monks in firsthand tour of Wilpattu squatters

A spokeswoman for the Antagonistic Collective Against Boredom (ACAB) said: "Bailiffs arrived and some intimidation was used to remove squatters from the building.

Squatters end sit-in at station

The squatters requested the army's presence to corroborate their case.

Military court sentences 12 people to prison in Suez

Summary: Police have used tear gas as they evict squatters from land in Chivay

Tear gas fired as police evict Peru squatters

Ad Hoc Property Management said it hopes to "deter squatters, thieves and vandals" by arranging for tenants to move into empty non-residential buildings.