If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of
- Written by Cathy Sherry, Professor in Law, Macquarie University
ShutterstockNothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the “doctrine of adverse possession”. The fact that a person can change the locks on someone else’s house, wait 12...
