Definition of Encumbrances

1. Noun. (plural of encumbrance) ¹

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Definition of Encumbrances

1. encumbrance [n] - See also: encumbrance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encumbrances

enculturating
enculturation
enculturations
encumber
encumbered
encumberer
encumberers
encumbering
encumberingly
encumberment
encumberments
encumbers
encumbrance
encumbrancer
encumbrancers
encumbrances (current term)
encumbrous
encur
encurtain
encurtained
encurtaining
encurtains
encyclic
encyclical
encyclical letter
encyclicals

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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