interloping

interloping
a) An act of intrusion or encroachment.

There was an interloping on my property.

b) A term used to describe the act of illegal Indian Trade within the area that the Hudsons Bay Company held a trade monopoly over. This area included entire watershed of Hudsons Bay.

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