[f. SQUAT v. 9.]
1. A holding occupied by a squatter.
1862. G. Duffy, Land Law Victoria, 10. Those … will necessarily desire to prevent any unfair absorption of the land, which must be speedily replaced out of their own squattages.
1864. W. Westgarth, Colony of Victoria, 272. The great Riverine district, which is one vast series of squattages.
1891. Daily News, 11 Sept., 2/4. Their holdings being originally squattages or small enclosures made on commons and waste lands.
2. The occupation of ground, etc., by squatting.
1901. Pall Mall Gaz., July, 3/1. The Piccadilly newsvendor, whose rights of squattage … that Office had not been prepared to acknowledge.
