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# " For mutualists, occupancy and use is the only legitimate standard for establishing ownership of land, regardless of how many times it has changed hands.

According the mutualist Kevin Carson " A change in occupancy will amount to a change in ownership.

" An existing owner may transfer ownership by sale or gift ; but the new owner may establish legitimate title to the land only by his own occupancy and use.

A change in occupancy will amount to a change in ownership.

Absentee landlord rent, and exclusion of homesteaders from vacant land by an absentee landlord, are both considered illegitimate by mutualists.

The actual occupant is considered the owner of a tract of land, and any attempt to collect rent by a self-styled landlord is regarded as a violent invasion of the possessor's absolute right of property.

( p. 200. of Carson's " Mutualist Political Economy.

" ( editor's emphasis )