encroachment

1. The act or an instance of encroaching.
2. Football. A violation of the rules in which a player enters the neutral zone and makes contact with an opponent prior to the snap of the ball.

Building, part of a building, or obstruction that physically intrudes upon, overlaps, or trespasses upon the property of another; verified by a Survey.

A building, a part of a building, or an obstruction that physically intrudes upon, overlaps, or trespasses upon the property of another.
Example: A part of the building on lot A is an encroachment on lot B. This situation probably occurred because of a faulty survey of lot A.

noun

An advance beyond proper or legal limits: entrenchment, impingement, infringement, intrusion, obtrusion, trespass. See enter/exit.

The unauthorized extension of a building, or part thereof, on the land of another.

An illegal intrusion in a highway or navigable river, with or without obstruction. An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as a wall or fence, which illegally intrudes into or invades the highway or encloses a portion of it, diminishing its width or area, but without closing it to public travel.

In the law of easements, where the owner of an easement alters the dominant tenement so as to impose an additional restriction or burden on the servient tenement, he or she is said to commit an encroachment.

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Encroachment is a term which implies "advance beyond proper limits," and may have different interpretations depending on the context. Encroachment may refer to one of the following:

• Temporal encroachment
• Structural encroachment
• Encroachment (American football), a penalty in American and Canadian football

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