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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. 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 ...

4. Squatting in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A number of means facilitated the legal settlement of the territories in the Midwest: land speculation, federal public land auctions, bounty land grants in lieu of pay to military veterans, and, later, preemption rights for squatters. Ultimately, as they shed the image of being outside the law and fashioned themselves into pioneers, squatters ...

5. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

8. Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, 1951 - Wikipedia

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   Defined that no person, except authorised by law, could enter or remain in or on land or buildings without the permission of the owner or lawful occupier. Nor could one, except by lawful reason, enter or remain in a native location, village or area except by the permission of the local authority or person in legal control of the area. Section 2.1

9. Kentucky homeowner forced out of his home as judge ... - AOL

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