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In 2024, Alabama passed legislation to have squatters evicted within 24 hours, face felony charges, and 1–10 years in prison. [58] [59] In common law, through the legally recognized concept of adverse possession, a squatter can become a bona fide owner of property without compensation to the
The Preemption Act of 1841, also known as the Distributive Preemption Act (27 Cong., Ch. 16; 5 Stat. 453), was a US federal law approved on September 4, 1841. It was designed to "appropriate the proceeds of the sales of public lands... and to grant 'pre-emption rights' to individuals" who were living on federal lands (commonly referred to as "squatters".)
A string of high-profile squatter cases have pushed multiple states to pass legislation to protect homeowners this year. Get off my lawn! 5 times squatters took advantage of unwitting homeowners ...
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The Alabama Legislature was founded in 1818 as a territorial legislature for the Alabama Territory.Following the federal Alabama Enabling Act of 1819 and the successful passage of the first Alabama Constitution in the same year, the Alabama General Assembly became a fully fledged state legislature upon the territory's admission as a state.
More commonly, “squatters’ rights” situations involve bad faith actors’ abuse of protections, such as New York City’s Tenants Bill of Rights, meant for legitimate tenants.
Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the US Supreme Court, which ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk even though the sidewalk was part of a privately-owned company town.