usufructuary

American  

[yoo-zoo-fruhk-choo-er-ee, -soo-, yooz-yoo-, yoos-] / ˌju zʊˈfrʌk tʃuˌɛr i, -sʊ-, ˌjuz jʊ-, ˌjus- /

adjective

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

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noun

usufructuaries plural

1. a person who has a usufruct property.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• usufructuaries
  plural

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

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)

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)

I appoint, as my usufructuary heir, my wife Signora Violante Peruzzi, etc.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous