Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Habitation

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

fn the civil law. The right of a person to live in the honse of another without prejudice to the property. It differed from a usufruct, in this: that the usutructuary might apply the house to any purpose, as of astore or manufactory; where. as Lhe party having the right of habitation could only use it for the residence of himself and family.

1 Browne, Civil Law, 184, In estates.

A dwelling-house; a homestall.

2 Bl, Comm. 4; 4 Bl. Comm. 220.