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blockbusting

sell hastily and often at a loss by appeals to fears of lowered values because of threatened minority encroachment and then reselling at inflated prices NOTE: Many states have statutes prohibiting blockbusting by real estate agents.

Annoisance or Annoyance

hurt done to a place, public or private, by placing anything thereon that may breed infection, or by encroachment, or such-like means. It is the same as noisance or nuisance, 22 Hen. 8, c. 5.

Administration

best served. No part of this management can be taken away and vested in another body without an encroachment upon the guaranteed right, State of Kerala v. Very Rev. Mother Provincial, (1970) 2 SCC 417: AIR 1970

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Actio personalis moritur cum persona.

v. Simes, (1890) 43 Ch D 607 as to injunction. This rule of the Common Law has been encroached upon by various statutes; by 4 Edw. 3, c. 7, as to trespass to goods (no limit of

Sea wall

A wall or embankment to resist encroachments of the sea

Invader

One who invades an assailant an encroacher an intruder

Inroad

of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion raid encroachment

survey

survey a property diagram that indicates legal boundaries, easements, encroachments, rights of way, improvement locations, etc. Surveys are conducted by licensed surveyors and are normally required by the

purpresture

to take, from Latin prehendere] : wrongful appropriation of land subject to the rights of others : an encroachment upon or enclosure of real property (as highways, sidewalks, or harbors) subject to common or public rights

protect

to shield from injury or harm [ing public health and safety] 2 : to secure or preserve against encroachment, infringement, restriction, or violation : maintain the status or integrity of esp. through legal or constitutional guarantees [

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