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encroachment

encroachment 1 : an act or instance of encroaching 2 : something (as a structure) that encroaches on another's land [possession of the one-foot ] ...


encroachments

encroachments a structure that extends over the legal property line on to another individual's property. The property surveyor will note any encroachment on the lot survey done before property transfer. The person who owns the structure will be asked to remove it to prevent future problems. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Encroach

To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the 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 and unauthorised construction

Encroachment and unauthorised construction, there is a distinction between the two concept namely unauthorised construction and raising of construc-tion or encroached land. As far as the first facet is concerned, it fundamentally conveys that a con-struction has been raised without obtaining approved plan or map from the competent au-thority, raising of construction in total transversion of the master plan and rasing of a construction without sanctioned plan or map and in deviation in the construction which are within the compound-able on one's own land. As far as the second facet i.e. construction on the raising land is concerned it is construction raised by a person on the land of the State Government or any public authority, Panital Chowk v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1906 NOC 299....


encroach

encroach [Anglo-French encrocher, probably alteration of acrocher to catch hold of, seize, usurp, from Old French, from a-, prefix stressing goal + croc hook] : to enter esp. gradually or stealthily into the possessions or rights of another [es on an adjoining property] ...


Encroachingly

By way of encroachment...


Encroachment

Encroachment. An unlawful gaining upon the possession of a neighbour.An infringement of another's rights or intrusion of another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 547.Means unauthorised occupation of Government land or public land by way of putting temporary, semi-permanent or permanent structure for residential use or commercial use or any other use, the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006, s. 2(c)....


infringe

infringe in·fringed in·fring·ing [Medieval Latin infringere, from Latin, to break, crush, from in- in + frangere to break] vt : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another [the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed "U.S. Constitution amend. II"] ;esp : to violate a holder's rights under (a copyright, patent, trademark, or trade name) vi : encroach in·fring·er n ...


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 right in·trud·er n ...


Purpresture

Wrongful encroachment upon anothers property esp any encroachment upon or inclosure of that which should be common or public as highways rivers harbors forts etc...


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