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Informally known as the “squatter’s right,” it holds that if you take someone’s property and openly use it for long enough, it can become yours by law.

It may be a kind of squatter's right, or anything else, or it may have no standing at all.

Up to that time no settler had more than a squatter's right.

We did not fail to examine our shoes before putting them on in the morning, lest the scorpions should have established a squatter's right therein.

The folk pay for their houses a nominal rental of a bushel of wheat per annum, in order to secure the owner's proprietary claim, which would otherwise pass to the occupier by squatter's right after thirty years of unmolested occupation.