Definición de «usufruct» en inglés

noun

1. (law) The legal right to use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person, as long as the property is not damaged.

   • Every American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book upon the nature, aims and usufructs of the Higher Education.

verb

1. (law, also figuratively) To use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person.

   • 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.