The different uses of language in these classes introduce a new hierarchy in which poor peasants occupy the bottom of the ladder, as they use the archaic lexicon reduced to the terminology of agriculture.

Historically, the peasants occupied the least fertile lands and were bullied by the owners.

A landless peasant in Brazil may nonviolently occupy a parcel of land for purely practical motivations.

The peasants, supported by inhabitants of Horn, Alkmaar and Haarlem, occupied those locations.

Witnesses reported that 50 to 150 peasants, some armed with shotguns and sticks, occupied the town hall without firing a shot.

According to Neale Pearson, there were instances where "peasants illegally occupied lands and a few in which they burned pastures or crops in order to have land declared uncultivated and subject to expropriation.

In 1524, in an incident that resonated across Switzerland, local peasants occupied the cloister of Ittingen in the Thurgau, driving out the monks, destroying documents, and devastating the wine-cellar.

Many proprietors contrived to curtail the allotments which the peasants had occupied under serfdom, and frequently deprived them of precisely the parts of which they were most in need: pasture lands around their houses.

Courts have not endorsed those positions, but the group continues to encourage peasants to occupy land.

Landless peasants occupied the communal land at dawn and began to hoe the fields.