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encumbrance definition - legal

n

A financial obligation, such as a mortgage, that is attached to or burdens a property right and is transferred with that right.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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