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Definition of Encroachers
1. encroacher [n] - See also: encroacher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encroachers
Literary usage of Encroachers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"There is, therefore, a community of the same subject-matter as to all the parties
of the first part, the encroachers; and the deeds affect the separate ..."
2. English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House by Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Courts (1855)
"The encroachments are the subject-matter of the deeds; all the encroachers convey
all the encroachments, and all the encroachers therefore have a common ..."
3. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"... by Charter of Henry VII., and also centring in the Lord's Court, at which "
encroachers " upon the privileges of the duly apprenticed Company-members ..."
4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1864)
"... some debatable ground where the encroachers are endeavouring to encroach a
little more, and the encroached upon to recover a step from the encroachers. ..."
5. An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History by George Cornewall Lewis (1855)
"... for that they would be satisfied by receiving allotments of ground in the
city, when the rural territory was held by many powerful encroachers. ..."
6. The Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal: From 1610 to 1659, from 1666 by Youghal, Ireland Corporation, Richard Caulfield (1878)
"... that it shall be lawful for the respective Masters and Wardens of each Fraternity
to issue the warrants under hand and seal against all such encroachers ..."
7. British Farmer's Magazine (1852)
"Yet, like the more insignificant encroachers, they are not ambitious of courting
inquiry, nor are they in any hurry to push matters to an issue. ..."
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