In 1849 the Illinois legislature demanded that its representatives and senators should vote for the prohibition of slavery in the Mexican cession, but next year this sentiment in Illinois had grown much weaker, and, both there and in Congress, Douglas's name was soon to become identified with the so-called " popular sovereignty " or " squatter sovereignty " theory, previously enunciated by Lewis Cass, by which each territory was to be left to decide for itself whether it should or should not have slavery.
The owner then has two years to start proceedings to evict the squatter.
A squatter will be able to apply to be registered as proprietor after ten years ' adverse possession.
But there may still be liability if your own site has been hijacked by a cyber squatter.
The "squatter's" still occupy eleven million acres, but even these are more closely subdivided than in former days.