usufruction

Noun

usufruction (uncountable)

1. The condition or state of possessing a usufruct.
   • The antecedent circumstances show that the natural right always appertaining to the early inhabitants of the shores of this river, above the Canadian line, to navigate it, has once been fortified by joint conquest, and by subsequent joint usufruction.1828 January 7, “(B.) American Paper on the Navigation of the St. Lawrence, (18th Protocol.)”, in Navigation of the St. Lawrence. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a...
   • The land cultivated by the peasant therefore was divided into two principal categories: / 1. That in which he had rights of property; / 2. That in which he had only rights of usufruction. […] As regards the land in which the peasant had only rights of usufruction, it was divided into two principal...1870, R[obert] B[urnett] D[avid] Morier, “The Agrarian Legislation of Prussia during the Present Century”, in Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries. A Series of Essays Published under the...