Squatter

Japanese: スクオッター（英語表記）squatter

Originally, the term referred to squatters on government land in the colony of New South Wales in Australia. Poor ex-convicts and others raised stolen livestock on these squatter lands. However, when 19 counties were established in the colony in 1829 and settlement outside of these lands was prohibited, wealthy livestock farmers found that the land within their counties was too small for them, so they crossed the county borders to illegally occupy government land. By 1835, almost all members of the colonial assembly had become squatters, and from around 1840 the term "squatter" came to refer to the upper class of the colony.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

元来はオーストラリアのニュー･サウス･ウェールズ植民地の官有地への不法入植者を指す。貧しい元流刑囚などが，盗んだ家畜をこの不法占拠地内で飼育した。しかし1829年に同植民地内に19の郡が設定され，これらの土地以外への入植が禁じられると，富裕な牧畜業者も郡内の土地だけでは狭すぎるために，郡の境界を越えて官有地を不法占拠した。35年には植民地議会議員のほぼ全員がスクオッターとなってしまい，スクオッターの呼称は40年ころから一転して植民地の上流階級を指すようになった。

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