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2. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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   Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.

3. Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Real estate managers recommend that vacant properties be protected by erecting "no trespassing" signs, regular checks, tenant screening, and quickly finding new tenants. [56] In Miami , municipal ordinance requires that property owner exercise all legal means to remove squatters and police are empowered to take actions to remove squatters from ...

4. How To Protect Your Real Estate From the Squatter Crisis - AOL

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   Squatters come in many forms. Some may even maintain the property and pay the property taxes and utility bills. If the squatters are treating your real estate as their home, it can become more ...

5. Squatters Beware: States Are Revising Adverse Possession Laws

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   Virtually every state has some form of an adverse possession law on its books, often dating back more than a hundred years as a way for pioneers to continuously squat on land, improve the land ...

6. What’s Behind Recent ‘Squatters’ Rights’ Disputes? - AOL

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   Technically, “squatters’ rights” do not exist—no law purports to intentionally protect squatters, and property owners (theoretically) have a constitutionally protected right to exclude ...

7. Preemption Act of 1841 - Wikipedia

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   The Preemption Act of 1841 permitted "squatters" who were living on federal government-owned land to purchase up to 160 acres (65 ha) for $1.25 per acre ($3.09 per hectare) before the land would be offered for sale to the general public. To qualify under the law, the "squatter" had to be the following: a "head of household";

8. Kentucky man forced out of his own home after his friends ...

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   The time period that the squatter must occupy the property before trying to claim ownership varies from state to state. In Kentucky, squatters who openly live on a property for 15 years may try to ...

9. Kentucky Revised Statutes - Wikipedia

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   Kentucky Revised Statutes; University of Louisville Digital Collection: The statute law of Kentucky with notes, praelections, and observations on the public acts : comprehending also, the laws of Virginia and acts of Parliament in force in this commonwealth : the charter of Virginia, the federal and state constitutions, and so much of the king of England's proclamation in 1763 as relates to ...