usufruction

usufruct +‎ -ion.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juːz(j)ʊˈfɹʌkʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /juzəˈfɹʌkʃən/
• Hyphenation: usu‧fruct

usufruction (uncountable)

1. (law) The condition or state of possessing a usufruct.
   • 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 Report from the Secretary of State, and the Correspondence with the Government of Great Britain, Relative to the Free Navigation of the River St. Lawrence (House of Representatives, 20th Congress, 1st session; doc. no. 43), Washington, D.C.: Printed by Gales & Seaton, →OCLC, page 40:

     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.

   • 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 Sanction of the Cobden Club, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 296:

     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 categories: / 1. Land in which the peasant had hereditary rights of usufruction, and could transmit his holding to his descendants and his collaterals, according to the common law of inheritance; / 2. Land in which the occupier was only a tenant for life, or for a term of years, or at will.

   • 1994, Abdullah Alwi Haji Hassan, “Loans, Deposit and al-Ḥajr”, in Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law, Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, (Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad; no. 92), →ISBN, →OCLC; republished Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: The Other Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 199:

     The use of the property of an orphan by a guardian who carries out his guardianship, is allowed for the latter's daily subsistence. Such use should be just and reasonable. […] According to al-Sha'bá, such just and reasonable use is like usufructing the milk of cattle, having services from servants and riding animals or vehicles, as long as such usufruction does not impair or damage the property itself.

• usufruct
• usufructuary

• infructuous