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Incumber

ER. To Incumber land is to piake it subject to a charge or liability; e. g., by mortgaging it Incumbrances include not only mortgages and other voluntary charges, but also liens, lites pendentes, registered judgments, and writs of execution, etc. Sweet. See Newhall v. Insurance Co., 52 Me. 181

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)