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Nov 30, 2009
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squat'ter's right'



Law Informal.
a claim to real property, esp. public land, that may be granted to a person who has openly possessed and continuously occupied it without legal authority for a prescribed period of years.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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