usufructuary rights
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 347 U.S. 239 - Federal Power Commission v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. · 1954Most cited · 261 citing opinions
rights to use the water for the generation of power, as distinguished from claims to the legal ownership of the running water itself. They are rights to use the force of the fall of the water, coupled with an obligation to return the water to the river under specified conditions
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “usufructuary rights” — 261 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.