Usufruct Definition

yo͝ozə-frŭkt, -sə-
noun
The right to use the property of another for a period of time with the obligation to return it, or leave it, undamaged or unimpaired.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Usufruct

Noun

Singular:
usufruct
Plural:
usufructs

Origin of Usufruct

  • From Late Latin usufructus, from Latin Å«sus et fructus (use and enjoyment), cognate to English use and fruit.

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin ūsūfrūctus variant of Latin ūsusfrūctus ūsus use usual frūctus enjoyment fruit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Usufruct Sentence Examples

  • From the third millenium onward, private creditors waged a struggle to obtain the land's crop usufruct at the expense of the palace.

  • Proprietors cannot sell the property without full consent of the usufruct holders while they are still alive.

  • Having no sea-coast, Bolivia has no seaport except what may be granted in usufruct by Chile.

  • He gave up his personal right of distributing the fiefs and honors which were the price of adherence, and thus lost for the Carolingians the free disposal of the immense territories they had gradually usurped; they retained the over-lordship, it is true, but this over-lordship, without usufruct and without choice of tenant, was but a barren possession.

  • Many Aymara were dependents of these estates, exchanging labor or crops for usufruct rights to arable lands.

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