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Usufruct

noun
1.
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.



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"Usufruct" Quotes from Famous Books



... precluded from being their own worshippers! Well, it was a consolation that she didn't know it, that she actually thought that, with her little coquetries and exactions, she was enjoying the chief usufruct of her beauty. God make up to the haughty, wilful darling in some other way for missing the passing sweetness of the thrall she held ...
— Dr. Heidenhoff's Process • Edward Bellamy
... Down in the deepest of our social dregs, A woman who professed the wanton's trade ... She sold this babe eight months before its birth To our Violante (3 syl.), Pietro's honest spouse, ... Partly to please old Pietro, Partly to cheat the rightful heirs, agape For that same principal of the usufruct, It vexed him he must die ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer


Words linked to "Usufruct" :   jurisprudence, legal right, law


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