usufructuary

• But he did advocate a usufructuary approach to the natural world - not an ownership or conquest. —  Kasama
• As natural rights, water rights are usufructuary rights (water can be used but not owned). —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
• I can recall no other use of the term in international discussions than the somewhat rhetorical statement that an invader should consider himself as merely the "usufructuary" of the resources of the country which he is invading; which is no more than to say that he should use them "en bon pčre de famille." —  Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920)
• Independently of the treaty stipulations into which we have entered with the various tribes for the usufructuary rights they have ceded to us, no one can doubt the moral duty of the Government of the United States to protect and if possible to preserve and perpetuate the scattered remnants of this race which are left within our borders. —  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)
• And it is no objection to this definition that an inheritance comprises things which are corporeal; for the fruits of land enjoyed by a usufructuary are corporeal too, and obligations generally relate to the conveyance of something corporeal, such as land, slaves, or money, and yet the right of succession, the right of usufruct, and the right existing in every obligation, are incorporeal 3 So too the rights appurtenant to land, whether in town or country, which are usually called servitudes, are incorporeal things TITLE III. —  The Institutes of Justinian

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