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Squatters’ Rights

March 7, 2016 by: Content Team

The phrase squatters’ rights pertains to a notion that someone who takes possession of, or who fails to leave, a property owned by someone else, can eventually claim that property as his own. The concept follows the arrival of homeless people moving into abandoned buildings and setting up shop. If the property owner shows up years later wishing to put […]

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