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Answer for the clue "A charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) ", 11 letters:
incumbrance

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Word definitions for incumbrance in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A burden; a thing that must be carried.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see encumbrance .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incumbrance \In*cum"brance\, n. [See Encumbrance .] [Written also encumbrance .] A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. --Cowper. (Law) A burden ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) [syn: encumbrance ] an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden , load , encumbrance , onus ] any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome ...

Usage examples of incumbrance.

Mysteries were but symbols of those intellectual ones by which the soul was to be purged of its vice-spots and stains, and freed of the incumbrance of its earthly prison, so that it might rise unimpeded to the source from which it came.

He had a house and lot all paid for, with no incumbrances only a mortgage of 150 dollars and a lame mother.

How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you, an idle dragooning chap, who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline?

It is a common practice with the Pawnees, and probably with other roving tribes, when departing on a distant expedition, which will not admit of incumbrance or delay, to leave their aged and infirm with a supply of provisions sufficient for a temporary subsistence.