usufruct

Use without ownership

Usufruct is the legal right to use and enjoy the benefits of property belonging to someone else, without damaging or diminishing it.

A person with usufruct of an orchard may harvest and sell the fruit but cannot cut down the trees.

The term appears primarily in civil law and estate planning: She was granted usufruct of the family home until her death.

entitlement

beneficiary

Designated asset receiver

bequest · legacy · devise · endowment · patrimony · birthright · estate · trust · grant · vesting

legal

servitude

Compulsory labor under masters

habitation · encumbrance · enjoyment · acquisition · disposition · reversion · codification

property

fruits

Edible seed-bearing crops

harvest · revenue · profits · enjoyment · benefit · exploitation · utilization · advantage · gains · extraction

tenure

landholding

Owned piece of terrain

possession · cultivation · estate · acreage · grazing · tillage · farming · agriculture · pasture · cropping

stewardship

conservation

Preventing waste or loss

guardianship · preservation · management · care · responsibility · protection · maintenance · husbandry · intergenerational

temporary

revocable

Able to be canceled

reversion · provisional · interim · nonpermanent · extinguishment · consolidation · renunciation · death · alienation

Opposites
property rights completeness

usufructfull ownership

freehold

use vs. non-use of property

usufructdispossession

Deprival of property rights

exclusion · divestiture · forfeiture · deprivation · abandonment

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