usufructuary
Americanadjective
noun
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usufructuaries
plural
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Etymology
Origin of usufructuary
1610–20; < Late Latin ūsūfrūctuārius, equivalent to ūsūfrūctu ( s ) usufruct + -ārius -ary
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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
Is the right of succession a right of accumulation or only a right of choice? how did the physician's father get his fortune? was he a proprietor, or only a usufructuary?
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
According to the Canon Law, the bishop was only the usufructuary of the lands and revenues belonging to his see.
From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley
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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
There are no proprietors--merely usufructuaries of the association's capital.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka
Through him immense plains are divided, mountains change their positions, forests are grown upon the public squares, one hemisphere produces for another, and every corner of the globe has its usufructuaries.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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