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encroach v. to build a structure which is in whole or in part across the property line of another's real property. This may occur due to incorrect surveys, guesses or miscalculations by builders and/or owners when erecting a building. The solutions vary from giving the encroaching party an easement or lease (for a price, usually) for the lifetime of the building, or if the structure is small, actually moving it onto the owner's own property. (See: encroachment) encroach verb breach, commit an infraction, enter by stealth, enter upon the domain of another, enter wronggully, impinge, infiltrate, infringe, ingress wrongfully, interlope, intrude, intrude illegally, invade, invade unnawfully, irrupt, make an incursion, make inroads, obtrude, occupare, overstep, penetrate, raid, transgress, trespass, violate See also: accroach, approach, border, impinge, impose, interfere, intervene, intrude, invade, obtrude, overlap, overreach, overstep, trespass, usurp How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The revisionists would destroy that truth to portray these individuals as nefarious encroachers on the peaceful Indian, to delegitimize not only the story of the American West, but also the whole of the American experience from Columbus to Carson. The semi-literate fishermen-traders promoted peace by intermarrying with and adopting customs of the native Mikmaq, who in turn blended the Acadians' Catholicism with their own religion and looked upon the Acadians as family instead of encroachers. Snow's southern encroachers upon territories in New York State could have adopted an old tradition of the culture they displaced (probably by intermarriage in part) in order to legitimize their relationship to the land and/or to acknowledge the ongoing connection to that past. |
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