Encumber: To place a claim, lien, charge or liability on property (e.g., mortgage, judgment lien, mechanic's lien, security interest).
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Encumbered: When a lien, mortgage or other restraint is placed against a property.
ENCUMBER - To burden with legal claims.
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Encumber: To burden property with debt, such as to mortgage or otherwise grant a security interest in property to another.
Encumbrance: A liability that lowers the value of a piece of property, such as a lien or a mortgage.
Encumber
Definition - Transitive Verb
: to burden with a claim (as a mortgage or lien) <~ed the land with a mineral lease>
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Reform, and radical reform, was indeed sadly needed throughout a system which was encumbered by noxious rubbish, the useless leavings of the middle ages: trial by battle and compurgation, deodands and benefit of clergy, John Doe and Richard Roe.
For example, a right to an estate to which an easement is attached, or the dominant estate, and to an estate which an easement encumbers, or the servient estate, in such case the easement is extinguished. 3 Mason, Rep. 172; Poph.
A maritime lien travels with the property, and encumbers the title of subsequent owners or possessors and survives the conventional sale of the vessel - it can only be discharged by consent of the holder or a court ordered sale.
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A deed containing an implied promise that the person transferring the property actually owns the title and that it is not encumbered in any way, except as described in the deed. This is the most commonly used type of deed. Compare quitclaim deed.
Encumbrances:
Those charges or the security that attaches to any kind of property. For example, if there is a mortgage on a piece of property, then the property is said to be encumbered by that mortgage.
Marketable Title
Title which can be readily marketed to a reasonably prudent purchaser aware of the facts and their legal meaning concerning liens and encumberances.
of his absolute percentage of the property owned) in the property at his death to his own chosen beneficiaries; his share need not become property of the other owners, as is the case in joint tenancy. In most states a tenant in common may encumber ...
 See also: Law, Property, State, Person, Claim
  
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