Why are there squatters rights?

Never understood this legal concept.

This. This is a good thread.

Squatters' Rights and Civil Forfeiture make no damn sense.

Squatter’s Rights is an English common law concept that carried over to America at some point.

And the concept even has ancient Roman origins.

From Wikipedia:

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In Roman law, usucapio laws allowed someone who was in possession of a good without title to become the lawful proprietor if the original owner did not appear after some time (one or two years), unless the good was obtained illegally (by theft or force). Stemming from Roman law and its successor, the Napoleonic Code, adopted as the basis of law in France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, and also, in part, by the Netherlands and Germany, adverse possession generally recognises two time periods for the acquisition of property: 30 years and some lesser time period, depending on the bona fides of the possessor and the location of the parties involved.[citation needed] Parliament passed England's first general statute limiting the right to recover possession of land in 1623.[5

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Edit: Essentially, the concept is to limit the conflict that would exist if someone were to buy a piece of land and abandon it for 40 years, leaving no trace of ownership, and for someone to move in and establish some residence under good faith and then have the original owner show up and claim original ownership.

The law says, in order to maintain possession, you must make a good faith effort to publicize your ownership.


Now, how the law has been perverted over time is another story.

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someone has the right to come into your place and just take over. You can’t throw their stuff out, change the locks, etc or you’ll be the one arrested. You have to go through a while eviction process.

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Maybe you do, I don't. Someone every tries to pull that on me I tie them up and duct tape their mouth and dump them off in the middle of no where Mississippi.

Because democrats.

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You can’t throw their stuff out, change the locks, etc or you’ll be the one arrested

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So you pay a shady type to go there, throw them out and then burn all their stuff

That is exactly how a slumlord buddy of mine handles it

It doesn't make any sense

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I don’t know the Netflix show well, but it seems like you are describing a roommate situation, in which one roommate has title to the domicile.

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Homeowner allowed guy to move in as a roommate. Guy basically locked himself in his room and stopped paying rent. Homeowner tried to get guy evicted and ended up getting kicked out of his own house.

Squatters rights should not exist.

fricking Democrats, that's why.

Any fricked up thing in this society can be directly traced to Democrats.