burden legal definition

noun

1. A duty, obligation, or responsibility.
2. Something that causes anxiety or is grievous or oppressive.
3. In property law, anything that encumbers or restrict the use or value of land, such as an easement, restrictive covenant, or zoning ordinance. The burden indefinitely binds the current and all future owners until it is extinguished, so it is the land, and the landowner, that is burdened by the encumbrance or restriction. See estate.