different between encumbrance vs allodial

English

Alternative forms

• incumbrance

Etymology

From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.

Noun

encumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural encumbrances)

1. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.

   • Some consideration was necessary to decide whether or not to leave his rifle there. On the return, carrying the girl and a pack, it would be added encumbrance […]

2. (law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
3. (law) One who is dependent on another.

   a widow without encumbrances, i.e. without children

Synonyms

• encumberment

Translations

Verb

encumbrance (third-person singular simple present encumbrances, present participle encumbrancing, simple past and past participle encumbranced)

1. (law) To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).

English

Etymology

From Middle French allodial, and its source, Latin allodialis (“held in freehold”), from allodium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??di?l/

Adjective

allodial (not comparable)

1. (historical) Pertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior. [from 17th c.]
   • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 351:

     Henry reconciled the Zähringer, whom he had deposed from Carinthia in 1078, by raising their allodial property in the Black Forest to a new duchy 20 years later.

Derived terms

• allodialist
• allodially

See also

• allodial title

Translations

Noun

allodial (plural allodials)

1. Anything held allodially.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Coxe to this entry?)

French

Adjective

allodial (feminine singular allodiale, masculine plural allodiaux, feminine plural allodiales)

1. allodial

Further reading

• “allodial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).