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Definition of Encumbrances
1. encumbrance [n] - See also: encumbrance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encumbrances
Literary usage of Encumbrances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"This was upon the ground that since a covenant against encumbrances runs with
the land, ... But that a bare covenant against encumbrances is personal, ..."
2. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant: Embracing the by John Neilson Taylor (1873)
"THE COVENANT AGAINST encumbrances. § 318. Another covenant on the part of the
landlord, important to the tenant, is for indemnity against encumbrances, ..."
3. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes : Political, Civil by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, Charles Lindley (1871)
"1113 A covenant "against encumbrances" is a covenant that, at the time of the
delivery of the grant, the estate granted is clear of all encumbrances. ..."
4. An Essay in a Course of Lectures on Abstracts of Title: To Facilitate the by Richard Preston (1819)
"But the covenants, and particularly the covenant against encumbrances, and the
exception in that covenant, may be very material to a title, especially when ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... encumbrances on the property, and that the amount of such advances should be
secured by the mortgage, and should also hear interest at the rate of two ..."
6. California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of by William Mark McKinney (1922)
"... against encumbrances.8 But a covenant against encumbrances has no reference
in general to existing physical and visible burdens imposed upon the land, ..."
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