Squatter definition

Squatter means a person occupying a dwelling unit who is not so entitled under a rental
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Squatter means a person occupying a dwelling unit who is not so entitled under a rental agreement or who is not authorized by the tenant to occupy that dwelling unit. “Squatter” does not include a tenant who holds over as described in ORS 90.427 (7).
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Squatter means those persons who have illegally occupied government lands for residential, business and or other purposes.
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Examples of Squatter in a sentence

  • Boonyabancha, S (2004), “A decade of change: from the Urban Community Development Office to the Community Organization Development Institute in Thailand” in Mitlin, D and D Satterthwaite (editors) (2004), Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction, Earthscan, London, page 51.

  • Hardoy, Jorge E and David Satterthwaite (1989), Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World, Earthscan Publications, London, UK, 388 pages.

  • However, the Occupier (Squatter tenant) will be eligible for Entitlements.

  • Planning in Squatter Settlements: An Interview with a Community Leader." Journal of Planning Education and Research.

  • Arnold Isaacs, “Crossroads: the Rise and Fall of a Squatter Movement in Cape Town, South Africa,” in Urban Social Movements in the Third World, ed.


More Definitions of Squatter

Squatter means a person/family that has settled on the public land without permission or has been occupying public building without authority prior to cut-off date and is depending for his or her shelter or livelihood and has no other source of shelter or livelihood.
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Squatter means a person who occupies land that legally belongs to another person without that persons consent;
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Squatter means a person occupying a dwelling unit who is not so
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Squatter means any person occupying land that belongs to the State (with no legal rights to occupy that parcel of land) for cultivation and/or residential and/or business purposes.
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Squatter means those persons who have illegally occupied government land for residential, business and or other purposes by making some investments on the land.
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Squatter means a person who is in actual occupation of State Land without probable claim or pretence of title thereto;
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Squatter means a person occupying a dwelling unit who is
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