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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



... 'fructus,' which word, being a little more familiar with, they would have scarcely abused to the same extent; they would not have called a walnut shell an intra-fruct—or a grape skin an extra-fruct; but again, because, though they are accustomed to the English 'fructify,' 'frugivorous'—and 'usufruct,' they are unaccustomed to the Latin 'fruor,' and unconscious therefore that the derivative 'fructus' must always, in right use, mean an enjoyed thing, they generalize every mature vegetable product under the term; and we find Dr. Gray coolly ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin


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


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