Usufruct

In the civil law, is the right of enjoying a thing, the property of which is vested in another, and to draw from the same all the profit, utility and advantage which it may produce, provided it be without wasting the substance of the thing. Usufructs are of two kinds; perfect and imperfect.

— Perfect usufruct, which. of things which the usufructuary can enjoy without altering their substances, though their substance may be diminished or deteriorated naturally by time or by the use to which they are applied; as a house, a piece of land, animals, furniture, and other movable effects.

— Imperfect or quasi usufruct, which. of things which would be useless to the usufructuary if he did not consume and expend them, or change the substance of them, as money, grain, liquors. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 525 et seq.; 1 Brown's Civ. Law, 184; Poth. Tr. du Douaire, n. 194; Ayl. Pand. 319; Poth. Pand. tom. 6 p. 91; Lecon's El. du Dr. Civ. Rom. § 414; Inst. Lib. 2, t. 4; Dig. lib. 7, t. 1, l. 1; Code, lib. 3, t. 33.