It never occurred to me that there would exist such a thing as squatter’s rights. It would never occur to me that thieves had a right to the goods they stole once in their possession.
To the fools who wrote these laws, if someone stole their checkbook, does that entitle the thief to their bank account?
Adam Schiff got some poetic justice in San Francisco when his luggage was stolen from his parked car. Now they are calling for extra security for public figures (except Trump) so they don’t suffer like ordinary people do with their policies.
Adverse Possession Laws “aka Squatters Rights” are among the oldest laws and probably nearly as old as the 10 commandments. They have existed in some of the oldest recorded laws from Babylonia and have persisted through the Roman Empire then medieval times into British Common Law and then American Law.
The intent was to prevent waste of lands or eviction of people long subsisting on lands. Records/maps were very poor and some people may have already lived there since before legal ownership of that land even existed.
These laws may not fit with today’s very different world but this is not some recent liberal creation
I suppose the Elvis Presley movie Follow that Dream has been on TV these past few years.
All I remember in the movie is Denver Pyle saying Squatters Rights about a hundred times.