Crossword clues for usufruct
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usufruct \U"su*fruct\ (?; 277), n. [L. usufructus, ususfructus,
usus et fructus; usus use + fructus fruit.] (Law)
The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or
other thing belonging to another, without impairing the
substance.
--Burrill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"right to the use and profits of the property of another without damaging it," 1610s (implied in usufructuary), from Late Latin usufructus, in full usus et fructus "use and enjoyment," from Latin usus "a use" (see use (n.)) + fructus "enjoyment," literally "fruit" (see fruit). Attested earlier in delatinized form usufruit (late 15c.).
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) The legal right to use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person, as long as the property is not damaged.
WordNet
n. a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way
Wikipedia
Usufruct is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed jurisdictions that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus:
- Usus (user) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it.
- Fructus (fruit, in a figurative sense) is the right to derive profit from a thing possessed: for instance, by selling crops, leasing immovables or annexed movables, taxing for entry, and so on.
A usufruct is either granted in severalty or held in common ownership, as long as the property is not damaged or destroyed. The third civilian property interest is abusus (literally abuse), the right to alienate the thing possessed, either by consuming or destroying it (e.g. for profit), or by transferring it to someone else (e.g. sale, exchange, gift). Someone enjoying all three rights has full ownership.
In many usufructory property systems, such as the traditional ejido system in Mexico, individuals or groups may only acquire the usufruct of the property, not legal title. A usufruct is directly equatable to a common-law life estate except that a usufruct can be granted for a term shorter than the holder's lifetime (cestui que vie).
Usage examples of "usufruct".
All other tangible things, they assumed, belonged inalienably to the world commonweal--in the usufruct of which every human being was manifestly a shareholder.
I say he has produced it, and contributed to the wealth of the world, and that he is as truly entitled to the usufruct of it as the miner who takes gold or silver out of the earth.
Nor should the greater share of this usufruct be absorbed by the manufacturer and publisher of the book.
Blackwood Farm itself, including all buildings, swamp and land, passed from Pops to me, with a grant of usufruct to Aunt Queen, meaning she could live there throughout her lifetime.
And having obtained Royal grants that he should have the usufruct of all that he should discover, provided that the ownership of the same is reserved to the Crown, with a small ship and eighteen persons he committed himself to fortune.
God and in the uncertainty of life, and that he has no heirs living in the ascending or descending line, and directing an inventory of his property to be taken immediately after his death, he proceeds to bequeath to the children of his sister, a widow lady in Baltimore, a ten-acre lot in Baltimore, the usufruct to remain in the widow, with six thousand dollars in cash.
Well, if she were to retire into a convent, taking vows of celibacy and poverty, then what they call the usufruct of her properties could be settled upon her heir presumptive for her lifetime, the properties themselves passing to him at her death.
Marie retained the usufruct of the domain and the use of the castles of La Fere and Du Chatelet for her residence, but legal disputes continued after the sale.
A breeze wafted up from the terrain below and it conveyed in it a hint of hogs, hides, horses, and others of the rich usufructs of the land.
Flaubert, in those days, was his idol, as we know, but the speech of his daily business won, and English literature reaped the greatest of all its usufructs from English sea power.
When it ceases to exist, the usufruct passes on to the succeeding generation, free and unincumbered, and so on, successively, from one generation to another forever.