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Squatter, a squatter is one who settles or locates on land enclosed with no bona fide claim or color of title and without the consent of the owner, AIR 1968 Punj 470 (473). (Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 76)If a squatter wrongfully encloses a bit of waste land, and builds a hut on it, and lives there, he acquires an estate in fee-simple by his own wrong iin the land which he has enclosed. He may, of course, be turned out by legal process until his title is confirmed by the Statute of Limitations; but as long as he remains he has an estate in fee-simple: Williams on Seisin, p. 7. It has even been held that he will be bound by the restrictive covenant of a former owner even after he has acquired a statutory title, Re Nisbet and Pott's Contract, (1906) 1 Ch 386.1. A person who settles on property without any legal claim or title 2. A person who settles on public land under a government regulation allowing the person to acquire title upon fulfilling specified conditions, Black's Law Diction...
squatter
squatter : a person who occupies real property without a claim of right or title NOTE: In most jurisdictions, a squatter cannot gain title to land through adverse possession because adverse possession requires possession of the property under a claim of right or color of title. ...
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Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that a man cannot enforce against another a right arising from his own breach of contract or breach of duty, Re London Celluloid Co., (1888) 39 Ch D 206, per Bowen, LJ.An estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the freehold to him and his heirs, 'because wrong is unlimited and revenues all that can be gotten and is not governed by terms of the estates, because it is not contained within rules': Hob. P. 323; Co. Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386.In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the conduct alleged ha...
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