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USUFRUCT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does usufruct mean?
• USUFRUCT (noun)
The noun USUFRUCT has 1 sense:
1. a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way
Familiarity information: USUFRUCT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("usufruct" is a kind of...):
legal right (a right based in law)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
usufructuary (of or relating to the nature of a usufruct)
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