usufructuary

American  

[yoo-zoo-fruhk-choo-er-ee, -soo-, yooz-yoo-, yoos-] / ˌyu zʊˈfrʌk tʃuˌɛr i, -sʊ-, ˌyuz yʊ-, ˌyus- /

adjective

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

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noun

plural

usufructuaries

1. a person who has a usufruct property.

Etymology

Origin of usufructuary

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 • Jun. 23, 2021

Edward Abbey, writing in Desert Solitaire upon finding himself “in the middle ground and foreground of the picture” of Arches national monument in 1956, declared himself “sole inhabitant, usufructuary, observer and custodian.”

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2021

The first class includes the products of the soil which belong to this first generation in its usufructuary capacity, augmented, improved and refined by its labor and industry.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

In a word, the usufructuary is under the supervision of society, submitted to the condition of labor and the law of equality.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

Continue possession as long as you wish, continue it for years and for centuries, you never can give duration—which of itself creates nothing, changes nothing, modifies nothing—the power to change the usufructuary into a proprietor.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)