Usufruct

In civil law. 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 altering the substance of the thing. Perfect usufruct is of things which the usufructuary can enjoy without altering their substance, 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 is of things whicii would be useless to the usufructuary if he did not consume and expend them or change the substance of them; as, money, grain, liquors. In this case, the alteration may take place. Civ. Code La. art. 525 et seq.; 1 Browne, Civ. Law, 184; Poth. Tr. du Douaire, note 194; Ayliffe, Pand. 319; Poth. ad Pand. tom. 6, p. 91; Lee. Elm. § 414; Inst. lib. 2, tit. 4; Dig. lib. 7, tit. 1, lib. 1; Code, lib. 3, tit. 33.

In Civil Law. 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 altering the substance of the thing. Heintzen v. Binninger, 79 Cal. 6, 21 Pac. 377. Perfect usufruct is of things which the usufructuary can enjoy without altering their substance, 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 is 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. In this case the alteration may take place; Pothier, Tr. du Douaire, n. 194.

In the civll law. 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 altering the substance of the thing. Civ. Code La. art. 533. And see Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 102 ; Cartwright v. Cartwright, 18 Tex. 628; Strausse v. Sheriff, 43 La. Ann. 501, 9 South. 102.

— Imperfect usufruct. An imperfect or quasi usufruct is that which is of things which would be useless to the usufructuary if hg did not consume or expend them -or change the substance of them; as, money, grnin, liquors. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 534.

— Perfect usufruct. An usufruct in those things which the usufructuary can enjoy without changing their substance, though their substance may be diminished or deteriorate naturally by time or by the use to which they are applied, as, a house, a piece of land, furniture, and other movable effects. Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 534.

— Quasi usufruct. In the civil law. Originally the usufruct gave no right to the substance of the thing, and consequently none to its consumption; hence only an inconsumable thing could be the object of it, whether movable or immovable. But in later times the right of usufruct was, by analogy, extended to consumable things, and therewith arose the distinction between true and quasi usufructs. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 307; Civ. Code La. 1900. art. 534.

In the civil law. The right of using and enjoying the profits of a thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance, — usually for the life of the usufructuary.

See Usus, Fructus.

The right to the use the life of the usufructuary.

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.

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.