| 单词 | squatter's right |
| 释义 | > as lemmassquatter's right squatter's right n. (also squatters' rights, †squatter right, squatters' right) originally U.S. the right of a squatter to the land on which he has settled; also in extended and figurative use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > as squatter > squatter's rights squatter's right1854 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > rights of occupying ground or land headright1703 groundage1721 squatter's right1854 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 54 These are all the materials excepting the timber, stones and sand, which I claimed by squatter's right. 1857 T. H. Gladstone Englishman in Kansas 168 The ‘squatter-right’ to a lot of ground is bought and sold on the strength of the law..which asserts its power by rifle and tomahawk. 1883 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Mail 24 Feb. 4/2 The infernal row you are all making up there about grievances, monopolies, squatters' rights, etc. 1944 N. Streatfeild Curtain Up xvi. 222 A talent once accepted acquired squatter's rights, as it were. 1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water x. 209 They had, by constant use.., almost acquired squatters' rights over a small table in the aft corner. 1968 E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent ii. v. 76 Families already living along the Assiniboine, exercise ‘squatter's rights’, and lay claim to the newly-surveyed River Lots. 1973 ‘Trevanian’ Loo Sanction 207 The lone painter..had come to assume over the years that the space, the stove, and the tea were his by squatter's right. < as lemmas |
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