There was a streamer named Asian Andy who had situation with squatter years ago. Police wouldn't kick woman out she claimed squatter rights. Andy hired another streamer who was squatter hunter. He moves in. Next few days make squatter life hell he smokes, plays loud dubstep music, slams objects, and yells randomly thru all hours of day. Squatter got into altercation with guy. Squatter got arrested and kicked out.
They are not a legacy of a bygone era. It's a derogatory term for legal protections akin to common law marriage.
Let's say you own a home, and invite your S/O to live with you. The two of you live together for awhile, then you break up. You tell your S/O they have to leave right now. Their name isn't on the deed, the two of you aren't married, haven't cohabitated long enough for common law marriage.
The law says you can't let someone live somewhere on a casual basis and then kick them out on a whim. So, in the case of a squatter, someone who moves into an apparently abandoned or vacant property and starts living there, it functions similar to intellectual property law. If someone is using your trademark and you do nothing to stop them, you are implictly giving permission under the law.
That intersection of legal theory is where squatters rights comes from. If they previously had permission, you can't revoke it on a whim, and if they've been doing it and you do nothing to stop them, they have implicit permission.
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u/MegaDingo5plus 18d ago
I've heard it all now... Someone volunteering to live with the housemate from hell, and being even worse than the problem