ENCROACHMENT
An illegal intrusion in a highway or navigable
river, with or without obstruction. An encroach-
ment 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
