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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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encumbrance

A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check.

Cowper.

(Law)

A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value.

Noun.

A burdensome and troublesome load; any thing that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; embarrassment.

A legal claim on the estate of another.

incumbrance ‎(plural incumbrances)

- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
  I was then lying at length upon that very couch, the scene of Mr. H . . .'s polite joys, in an undress which was with all the art of negligence flowing loose, and in a most tempting disorder: no stay, no hoop . . . no incumbrance whatever.
(law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

burden — see encumbrance

interest, right, burden or liability — see encumbrance