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Usufruct

noun

A legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way.

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"Usufruct" Quotes from Famous Books

... first-named port would be opened to the ships of all the great powers like other ports on the Chinese mainland. This promise was subsequently qualified, and on March 27 a convention was signed at Pekin giving the Russians the "usufruct" of Port Arthur and Talienwan, which, practically, meant that Russia had obtained those harbors unconditionally, and for an indefinite period. France, on her part, obtained possession of the port of Kwangchowfoo, which is the best outlet ...

— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... orders and desires that the sum of four hundred scudi del Sole, which he has deposited in the hands of the treasurer of Santa Maria Nuova in the city of Florence, may be given to his brothers now living in Florence with all the interest and usufruct that may have accrued up to the present time, and be due from the aforesaid treasurer to the aforesaid Testator on account of the said four hundred crowns, since they were given and consigned by the Testator to the ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

Words linked to "Usufruct" : jurisprudence, legal right, law