Encumbrancer

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Law One that holds an encumbrance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative form of incumbrancer.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as incumbrancer.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who holds an encumbrance or a legal claim on an estate.
    • Word Usage
    "The landlord entitled to require the State to purchase his property is the immediate landlord, that is to say, the person entitled to the receipt of the rent of the estate; no encumbrancer can avail himself of the privilege, the reason being that the Bill is intended to assist solvent landlords, and not to create a new Encumbered Estates Court."
    Variant
    incumbrancer   
     
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