usufruct right
- noun
- /ˈjuːzəfrʌkt raɪt/
- Formal
- His usufruct right allowed him to harvest fruit from the orchard while ensuring the trees remained unharmed.
Examples
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Women traditionally had only usufruct rights, not ownership rights, to land for cultivation.
Academic text (1998) -
Locally defined groups such as clans and families held land tenure and accorded usufruct rights to their members.
Academic text (2018) -
Rwanda is an example of the problem of usufruct rights versus land ownership in a densely populated country.
Academic text (1998) -
Ituqui varzeiros have usufruct rights to and on the island, but that collateral is insufficient for the credit market.
Academic text (2002) -
Usufruct rights were enmeshed in systems of customs, beliefs, and taboos that discouraged overexploitation.
Academic text (2018) -
Under traditional law, farmers can exercise their usufruct right to use the land for their crops without owning it.
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The local community agreed to grant usufruct rights to families in need, allowing them access to agricultural land.
Synonyms
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A right to use and benefit from someone else's property without harming it
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'usufruct' already encodes the idea 'right to use and benefit from another's property', so combining it with 'right' yields a directly compositional phrase meaning the legal right of usufruct. Although 'usufruct' is a technical legal term (rare for B1 learners), if a learner knows both constituents the overall meaning is predictable and transparent.
Etymology
Usufruct right comes from old Latin words usus and fructus, where usus means 'use' and fructus means 'fruits' or 'income'. Think of it as the right to live on land and take its crops or rent but not to sell the property, so you can use and benefit from it while someone else still owns it.