They believed that they could live off another's land and not pay for the land.
No. Squatters refer to those people who live on and/or care for a piece of land that they do not own. Stations refer to ranches in Australia.
In Australian history, squatters were graziers who occupied land without having any formal title to it. They believed that if they maintained and improved the land, they had a right to formal possession of it. Many of the original squatters were ticket-of-leave convicts. Some came by their land dishonestly. A licensing system was introduced whereby, for a regular fee, the squatters were permitted to stay on their land. However, the fee did not grant them full title. Discontent arose when the Government re-allocated the land to settlers who were prepared to pay a reasonable sum of money. Later, the term squatters referred to wealthy landowners and graziers, and it became a more respectable term.
There are no such thing in law in the United States as squatters rights. State owned land cannot be acquired by adverse possession in Massachusetts.
Squatters don't have rights. They are there illegally and are not renters or owners to the house.
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Squatters rights, son!
Squatters.
someone who settle on land that anit theif
There was no specific process. Squatters chose the land they wanted, erected their sheep or cattle runs and fences, and called that area their land. They had no actual legal right to the land, but they gained the land simply by being the first in the area. Squatter were different from selectors, who were awarded tracts of land. Sometimes selectors' lands encroached upon what the squatters called their own, and conflict resulted. Regulations to control "squatting" only came in during the 1830s.
Rewarding squatters who cleared land before the government surveyed it.Added: Actually the proper term was "homesteaders" NOT squatters.
Squatters. In all the books I have read, this is what they are called.