Encumbrance in a sentence as a noun

Easements are a form of encumbrance upon a title.

Why cripple the new model with this encumbrance?

There is a point where one has too many choices and they become a real encumbrance.

I think he is trying to say he is going to miss a vibrant OSS community due to the perceived encumbrance.

So it has nothing to do with patent encumbrance, it's just about their greed and thirst for market domination.

How is an external keyboard less of a physical encumbrance than a thin plastic overlay?

".When carried in the left-front pocket of my pants, my Nexus 5 slightly encumbers my ability to bend my left leg. Were it any taller, the encumbrance would not be slight.

But moving a flagship GNU project to a runtime with serious patent encumbrance is clearly never going to happen.

The part about Google offering a sort of vetting service sounds quite plausible, in a "Oh, ****" kind of way. For those of us that try to be anonymous we could have further encumbrance dealing with not being "Google Verified".

I find it an encumbrance on desktops where I often want to update individual apps or keep several versions of a single app side-by-side.

Pauseless GC for immutable objects could be achieved easily without any patent encumbrance or OS level support.

I'm positive that anyone who misuses the word "closed" to refer to patent encumbrance has never had to suffer through working with actual by-definition closed codecs.

You might be confusing licensing with potential patent encumbrance, perhaps on purpose since one of your activities here seems to involve spreading disinformation about that project [2].

Sometimes a stack of items--ammo, potions--would stop decrementing when you removed one but keep incrementing when you added one, which sounds great except that U6 had encumbrance, so you wound up unable to carry anything but 60 pounds of potions.

She, along with many actual engineers, was an advocate of using GPL or OpenSolaris but the need to release rather than wait for one of {GPL v3, Mozilla license revision, encumbrance removal} meant that this was not possible.

She, along with many actual engineers, was an advocate of using GPL for OpenSolaris but the need to release rather than wait for one of {GPL v3, Mozilla license revision, encumbrance removal} meant that this was not possible.

But this presents an encumbrance over information for which society would be better off if it were free in the informational sense, only free is hard to monetize in a world of Pirate Bay self-righteousness, where mass piracy is accepted and even praised.

Encumbrance definitions

noun

an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"

See also: burden load incumbrance onus

noun

a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)

See also: incumbrance

noun

any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

See also: hindrance hinderance hitch preventive preventative incumbrance interference