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Definition of Incumbrance
1. Noun. A charge against property (as a lien or mortgage).
2. Noun. An onerous or difficult concern. "That's a load off my mind"
Generic synonyms: Concern, Headache, Vexation, Worry
Specialized synonyms: Dead Weight, Fardel, Imposition, Pill
Derivative terms: Burden
3. Noun. Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome.
Specialized synonyms: Clog, Speed Bump
Generic synonyms: Impediment, Impedimenta, Obstructer, Obstruction, Obstructor
Derivative terms: Hinder, Preventive
Definition of Incumbrance
1. n. A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check.
Definition of Incumbrance
1. Noun. A burden; a thing that must be carried. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incumbrance
Literary usage of Incumbrance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"A dower interest in land is not an incumbrance, but an interest in the land ...
1n some cases the inchoate right of dower is spoken of as incumbrance, ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Covenants for Title by William Henry Rawle (1887)
"It arises, in part, from the fact that the word " incumbrance " has no ...
Within the present century, an incumbrance has been defined to be " every right ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... judgment or other incumbrance held by the person giving the waiver. In other
words, if the person executing the waiver owns the fee, the government, ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"For where- a trustee or heir buys in an incumbrance, he shall be allowed no more
than what he really paid for it, unless he bought it to protect ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Contracts: Being a Consideration of the Nature ...by William Frederick Elliott by William Frederick Elliott (1913)
"Where the incumbrance consists of a right, under a lease which does not expire
for some years, to procure ice from the premises, and a right of way across ..."
6. Report by New Hampshire Bureau of Labor, Montana (1893)
"In too home families, on the average, 56 hire their homes, 6 own with incumbrance,
and 38 without incumbrance. The debt on owned homes aggregates ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"PURCHASER EXPRESSLY ASSUMING incumbrance. — If the purchaser expressly assumes
to pay the incumbrance, he thereby becomes the principal debtor, ..."
8. Marketable Title to Real Estate: Being Also a Treatise on the Rights and by Chapman White Maupin (1921)
"Definition of incumbrance. § 123. Pecuniary charges and liens. Effect of notice.
8 124. Outstanding interest less than a fee. 8 12">. ..."
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