He is freer than the average American because he isn't encumbered with property (he has nothing to lose); or he is more genuine because he lives according to his own lights, rather than artificial conventions.
A joint owner can clean out your accounts or otherwise encumber your property.
They may decline properties encumbered with debt or environmental problems.
Recording a mortgage, Mr. Shupack said, not only provides public notice to other potential lenders that the property is encumbered by an existing lien, but it also ensures that the existing lien will be paid off before any subsequently recorded liens are satisfied.
Encumbered, he cannot move and is stuck in this pose.
Accordingly, as living property it was encumbered on enslaved Africans and their descendants to live so as to make good on the investments in their purchase and maintenance by engaging in productive labor, without compensation, and to endure and reproduce as ontological slaves in order to sustain and justify the institution of their imprisonment.
An operating company spins off real estate assets with debt that encumbers the property, so REIT spinoffs remove debt from the operating company's balance sheet.
As befits a man of advanced middle age, he is encumbered by family responsibilities, business worries and property management: at least, very rock'n'roll versions of them.
Many of us, people of faith or not, do not wish to be encumbered with, or use, either patriarchal vocabulary or the property-rights baggage of marriage as commonly understood.
He encumbered the process.
Genius cannot be encumbered.
