usufructuary

[ yoo-zoo-fruhk-choo-er-ee, -soo-, yooz-yoo-, yoos- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of usufruct.

noun

, plural u·su·fruc·tu·ar·ies.

1. a person who has a usufruct property.

Word History and Origins

Origin of usufructuary¹

1610–20; < Late Latin ūsūfrūctuārius, equivalent to ūsūfrūctu ( s ) usufruct + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

Courts have deemed that irrigators have a usufructuary right — a type of property right that allows use of something in the public domain — to the top six feet of water in the lake.

From Los Angeles Times

The following letter touches incidentally upon the description of the rights of an invader over certain kinds of State property in the occupied territory as being those of a "usufructuary."

From Project Gutenberg

The tenant, the farmer, the commandite', the usufructuary, are possessors; the owner who lets and lends for use, the heir who is to come into possession on the death of a usufructuary, are proprietors.

From Project Gutenberg

There are no proprietors--merely usufructuaries of the association's capital.

From Project Gutenberg

According to the Canon Law, the bishop was only the usufructuary of the lands and revenues belonging to his see.

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