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Definition of Encumbered
1. Adjective. Loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load. "An encumbered estate"
Antonyms: Unencumbered
Definition of Encumbered
1. Adjective. Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow. ¹
2. Verb. (past of encumber) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encumbered
1. encumber [v] - See also: encumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encumbered
Literary usage of Encumbered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"encumbered Property Passes.—Property encumbered with liens passes to the trustee,
subject to the liens according to their validity. ..."
2. The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources by Francis Bowen (1859)
"Mr. Pirn describes a " by no means uncommon case," in which the heir comes into
possession of a deeply encumbered estate, when already " burdened with debts ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1904)
"If A owns a lot valued for taxation at $1400, encumbered by a mortgage lien of
... The owners of all real estate encumbered by mortgage constitute a natural ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The encumbered cations are very similar to the intermediates in the endothermic
... encumbered cations lacking ß branching collapse to products without ..."
5. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"Want of adequate subsistence among the slaves of an encumbered sugar estate is
not a new-born, or occasional, but an old and perennial mischief; ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"encumbered or incomplete title. Where the seller is not wholly without title to
the property which he has agreed to convey but his title is encumbered or ..."
7. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"encumbered or incomplete title. Where the seller is not wholly without title to
the property which he has agreed to convey but his title is encumbered or ..."
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