usufruct

• Well, if she were to retire into a convent, taking vows of celibacy and poverty, then what they call the usufruct of her properties could be settled upon her heir presumptive for her lifetime, the properties themselves passing to him at her death We will wish the young lady no such dreary fate," laughed Anthony. —  The Lady Paramount
• But little things and things of less utility to the Church we permit to be given to strangers and clergy for their usufruct, the right of the Church being maintained. —  A Source Book for Ancient Church History
• Well, if she were to retire into a convent, taking vows of celibacy and poverty, then what they call the usufruct of her properties could be settled upon her heir presumptive for her lifetime, the properties themselves passing to him at her death. " —  The Lady Paramount
• There was nothing very fixed or clear in the position of the beneficiaries and in the nature of their power; they were at one and the same time delegates and independent owners and enjoyers of usufruct, and the former or the latter character prevailed among them according to circumstances. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
• There they find (or are reminded) that ”usufruct“ derives from the Latin word meaning ”use and enjoyment.“ What Jefferson had his mind on, above all, was the evil (as he saw it) of inherited debt—the legal obligation of a man to pay off loans borrowed not by himself but by a parent or other ancestor, and, on a national scale, for one generation of citizens to be saddled with debts incurred by another. —  Understanding Thomas Jefferson

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