Usufruct
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A civil-law term for the right of using («,?««) and taking the fruits (^fructus) of any property of another, without, however, consuming or injuring it. Usufructuary: one who possessed such a right. fore corresponds to the common-law tenant for life. Brown. But, in practice, a usufruct was generally understood to signify a right of enjoyment of any thing for the life of the usufructuary; I.e., of the party entitled to the usufruct. And the word is so understood in the law of Scotland. (BeU.) Mozki/^W.