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Definition of Encumbering
1. encumber [v] - See also: encumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encumbering
Literary usage of Encumbering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"Justification of the removal of goods to a small distance, because the same were
encumbering defendant's close, (c) REMOVAL OP A PUBLIC NUISANCE. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Parties to Actions, the Forms of Actions, and on Pleading by Joseph Chitty, John A. Dunlap (1819)
"[*596] Justification of the removal of goods to a small distance because the same
were encumbering plaintiff's close (i/). [•or] and until the said AB was ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"By the last struggle with encumbering dust, ' To me, enamoured of each pensive
scene ; To me, whom deepest solitudes delight; Who love, alike, day's closing ..."
4. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"ORDINANCE Of the Director and Council of New Netherland against encumbering or
obstructing Highways. Passed 23 May 1050. ..."
5. The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas: With Remarks, Historical and Critical by Henry Lee (1824)
"... over fields of battle, played off that celebrated freak;" and of encumbering
this diminished conflict with French phrases from the battle of Waterloo. ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"And the nullity extends to the insurance of goods in the same policy.1* So, if
the consent of the insurance company to the encumbering of property is to be ..."
7. Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence and Equitable Remedies by John Norton Pomeroy (1905)
"... in violation of a trust;4 to restrain a breach of trust;5 to prevent a defendant
from affecting or encumbering the property in litigation by contract, ..."
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