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encroachment

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Encroachment

Matched in: Term Encroachment

encroach

encroach [Anglo-French encrocher, probably alteration of acrocher to catch hold of, seize, usurp, from Old French, from a-, prefix

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Encroach

possessions or rights of another to trespass to intrude to trench commonly with on or upon as to encroach on a neighbor to encroach on the highway

Encroachment

Matched in: Term Encroachment

Encroacher

One who by gradual steps enters on and takes possession of what is not his own

Encroachment and unauthorised construction

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Purpresture

Wrongful encroachment upon anothers property esp any encroachment upon or inclosure of that which should be common or public as

Rationabilibus divisis

divers towns, had seigniories adjoining, for him who found his waste by little and little to have been encroached upon, against the other, who had encroached, thereby to rectify the bounds.

intrude

intrude in·trud·ed in·trud·ing vi 1 : to enter by intrusion 2 : encroach [a search that s on a person's privacy] vt : to encroach on or upon without permission or

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