incumbrance

His land groaned under the weight of a long neglected incumbrance and, like many of his neighbors, he was ready for another change.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon

A red-headed boy, the natural incumbrance of the woman with the novel, snorted over his plate, and the old woman set her teeth on edge and looked hard at him.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read

The construction of those I have the honor of presenting to you is designed to obviate the difficulty by leaving the whole passage of the river clear of the incumbrance of piers...

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

It appeared that he had been buying land lately—I think it was a hundred acres—but there was probably an incumbrance to it, somebody else claiming to have bought some grass on it for this year.

From Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau

We have added eighty acres to our land, making one thousand six hundred and thirty-three acres free of incumbrance.

From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes