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What does encumbrance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word encumbrance? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
  2. (law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
  3. (law) One who is dependent on another.
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Not content with his usual carryings-on, today I couldn't shift him out of the house without this multi coloured encumbrance.
At the top of the list is the simple proposition that by adding a reference to the first mortgage as a prior encumbrance the lease was encumbered.
The efforts of the stickleback to rid himself of this encumbrance were amusing.
The provision of the contract required the conveyance of the property to be free of encumbrance.
Sometimes physician assistants may be a slight encumbrance, requiring an inconvenient amount of the physicians' time, especially in the early stages of the partnership.
Not once had she ever felt she were a bother, or an encumbrance, or an unwelcome guest taken in because she had nowhere else to go.

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