Usus

Lat.

In Roman law. A precarious enjoyment of land, corresponding with the right of habitatio of houses, and being closely analogous to the tenancy at sufferance-or at will of English law. The usuarius (i. e., tenant by usus) could only hold on so long as the owner found him convenient, and had to go so soon as ever he was in the owner's way, (molestus.) The usuarius could not have a friend to share the produco. It was scarcely permitted to him (Justinian says) to have even his wlfe with him on the land; and he could not let or sell, the right being strictly personal to himself. Brown.

/. Use. Usus bellici: practice of the court, of this Ut, I. That; as; so. Ut Ut audivi t as I heard. Ut rere solebat: as it used to Ut res magis valeat quam stand than fall. Ut pcena perveniat: that the fear may Ut supra: as above.