单词 | usufruct |
释义 | usufructn. 1. a. Law. The right of temporary possession, use, or enjoyment of the advantages of property belonging to another, so far as may be had without causing damage or prejudice to this. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right of temporary possession usufruit1478 usual fruit1558 usufructa1646 a1646 T. Hope Minor Practicks (1726) 252 After the Usufruct is once lawfully constitute by a Sasine. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xvi. 327 Usufruct is the power of disposal of the use and fruits, saving the Substance of the thing. 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. at Services Services Personal, are those due from a Thing to a Person, and of these they account..Usufruct, Use and Habitation. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 105 A subject therefore hath only the usufruct, and not the absolute property of the soil. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism x. 99 Lawsuits in chancery for some short usufruct of a bit of land. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) I. i. ii. 74 They held it [sc. Sogdiana] in possession..for 90 or 100 years; they came into the usufruct and enjoyment of it. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. ii. 86 He owned some usufruct, had moneys' use Lifelong. b. An office of which one is usufructuary. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] > use or profit of another's property usufruct1848 1848 H. Hallam Suppl. Notes View Europe Middle Ages 116 M. Guérard..is of opinion that, though benefices were ultimately fiefs, in the first stage of the monarchy they were only usufructs. 2. a. gen. Use, enjoyment, or profitable possession (of something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > beneficial use usance1483 usufruct1811 1811 C. Lamb in Reflector 2 350 In the rich man's houses and pictures..I have a temporary usufruct at least. 1835 E. Greswell Expos. Parables IV. 490 No more than preliminary to the usufruct of the Kingdom itself. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. 41 Which of the rival Churches should have the control and usufruct of every holy shrine. b. esp. Beneficial use or enjoyment of land. Also figurative and transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > beneficial use > specifically of land use and occupation1600 usufruction1846 usufruct1898 1864 G. P. Marsh Man & Nature 35 Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption. 1870 T. H. Huxley Lay Serm. xii. 313 Depriving man of the usufruct of one of the most fertile fields of his great patrimony, Nature. 1898 Harcourt in Times 30 Mar. 8/2 The ‘usufruct’ of Port Arthur and Ta-lien-wan had been granted to Russia. ‘Usufruct’ appears to be a new word [in this connection]. 3. attributive, as usufruct discipline, usufruct right. ΚΠ 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. iv. 69 A sordid, utilitarian, usufruct, discipline of the youthful mind. 1881 ‘H. H.’ Century of Dishonor 115 The usufruct right of the Indians to the lands occupied by them. Derivatives usuˈfruction n. = sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > beneficial use > specifically of land use and occupation1600 usufruction1846 usufruct1898 1846 Congress. 27 May 862/3 They saw..that they could..get the whole [boundary-line], at least for a long time, under our own delusive project of joint usufruction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). usufructv. transitive. To hold (property) as a usufructuary; to possess in or subject to usufruct. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > have right of temporary possession of usufruct1880 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 78 It is.. the right of usufructing, and the right under the obligation that is incorporeal. 1886 J. Muirhead in Encycl. Brit. XX. 709/2 Property usufructed should revert unimpaired to the owner. Derivatives ˈusufructed adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [adjective] > right of temporary possession > held by usufructed1880 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 104 Whether we can possess and usucapt through a usufructed slave. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1646v.1880 |
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