The phrase "as encumbrances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that acts as a burden or hindrance in a particular context, often in legal or financial discussions.
Example: "The property was sold with several issues identified as encumbrances that could affect its value."
Alternatives: "as burdens" or "as liabilities".
For unsecured creditors such as bondholders, the concern is a problem known as "encumbrance".
If it isn't clear how much of a bank's assets are pledged against secured borrowings — known as "encumbrance" — then unsecured bondholders can't work out their potential losses if things go awry.
Most of his life, Reagan conceded, he had seen international organizations like the United Nations as an encumbrance, as "debating societies" and hotbeds of hostility toward America.
It also realizes that those of us who choose to be mobile require as little encumbrance as possible, thus the love of converged devices.
He chews out underlings -- the ones he actually notices -- in a cavalier fashion and he often treats his partners as annoying encumbrances.
It will surprise no one that the lessons of the 2008 crash, and Canary Wharf's role as "Wall Street's Guantanamo" (a lawless zone, free from such awkward encumbrances as government regulation and good practice), are being quite determinedly unlearned.
In Reagan's administrations, scorn for treaties and international organizations as an encumbrance on American power was rife, but not dominant.
"He makes it quite plain that he views older faculty members as an encumbrance," said Richard C. Hatch, 63, a chemistry professor who has been on the faculty since 1962.
Although, for much of his premiership, Mr Brown seemed to regard it as an encumbrance he reluctantly inherited from his gung-ho predecessor, he has recently made a better fist of explaining Britain's bloody deployment in Helmand.
English labour leaders found they could make many practical advances by cooperating with the Liberal Party and, regarding Marx's rhetoric as an encumbrance, resented his charge that they had "sold themselves" to the Liberals.
