Incumber
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
To incumber land is to make it subject to a charge or liability; e. g., by mortgaging it. Incumbrances include not only mortgages and other voluntary charges, but also liens, lites pendentes, registered judgments, and writs of execution, etc.
Sweet. See Newhali v. Insurance Co., 52 Me. 181.