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1British A person or company residing in or using a property as its owner or tenant, or (illegally) as a squatter.
‘The Act further provides for the prosecution of landowners who illegally evict occupiers from their land.’
‘Thus, the escape was one for which custom had long since imposed strict liability on the occupier of the land.’
‘All owners, occupiers, statutory bodies and other interested parties will receive full details of the proposals this month.’
‘The gypsies in South Bucks were both owners and occupiers of the land, albeit occupying it in breach of planning legislation.’
‘There is already a great deal of interest in the development and we know that these facilities will prove an additional attraction to potential occupiers.’
‘If there is actual occupation, and the occupier has rights, the purchaser takes subject to them.’
‘The adjudication provisions in the Minor Works contract do not exclude residential occupiers from their ambit as does the Act.’
‘Exclusive possession distinguishes an occupier who may in due course acquire title under the Limitation Act 1980 from a mere trespasser.’
‘Under Section 106, the Act, following the Latham Report, does not apply to a construction contract with a residential occupier.’
‘The individual claimants are freehold owners and occupiers of their homes in Church Village.’
‘The plaintiffs were lessees and occupiers of one of the flats.’
‘The new buildings will offer potential occupiers a different style of office accommodation.’
‘It has, as Stein JA points out, an inherent quality that it will be used to the benefit of subsequent owners and occupiers.’
‘The second is satisfied if the occupier knows that the claimant may come into the vicinity of the danger.’
‘To date the local authority has been obliged to notify the owner and occupier that the property will be revalued, but this will no longer be the case.’
‘It seems to embrace the proposition that owners or occupiers are insurers for the safety of others.’
‘An occupier under a beneficial lease cannot require the annual value to be cut down to the rent actually reserved.’
‘The retail market continues to be the best performer in the commercial sector with strong demand from tenants and occupiers.’
‘Mr Fagan is advising owners and occupiers of similar properties that their buildings should be regularly surveyed and repaired.’
‘Is there a genuine issue for trial on the question of whether Monk Realty was an occupier of the sidewalk?’
2A member of a group that takes possession of a country by force.
‘the occupiers were reported to have rounded up civilians and carried them off to unknown fates’
‘No, the they are resisting because they want to control their own destiny, rather than be dictated to by a foreign occupier.’
‘Over the next 24 years, the occupiers inflicted massacres, hunger, forced sterilization, and attempts at cultural annihilation on East Timor.’
‘The view held by the people, however, is that these forces are occupiers and should leave.’
‘This is an outlandish thing to say - as if the occupiers had not selected and trained the security forces from day one.’
‘He then asked Horan if the coalition forces in Iraq were liberators or occupiers.’
‘The occupiers possess strong conventional military forces, including tanks and artillery.’
‘Saunders has also noted journalists' general disregard for female occupation leader when reporting the occupiers' stance.’
‘Hand of Death is set in 17th century China, the Ching dynasty era when Manchu occupiers persecuted the members of the Shaolin sect.’
‘To this day, many people in France possess reservations about whether armed opposition to the occupiers was worthwhile.’
‘The occupiers are a group of ‘sovereignty radicals’ who have no family connections with the original land owners.’
‘A UN administrative force however would have the additional benefit of shifting the perception of the international force from that of occupier to stabiliser.’
‘They now seem motivated primarily by anger at foreign forces, which they perceive as occupiers.’
‘They extracted resources and, with the help of small groups of locals, became autocratic occupiers of the land.’
‘The UN is not going to commit forces to be killed as occupiers, nor is NATO coming to save us.’
‘They must believe that their country will soon be returned to them and that they have not traded a tyrant for an occupier.’
‘Gardai said the occupiers had forced their way into the house, via the back, which connects to a lane-way off Shelbourne Road.’