USUFRUCT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)