Ngāti Apa case, the Court of Appeal held that the scope of customary title could range from what it called usufructuary rights to something approaching fee simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Though there remain formidable social and political obstacles to the full realization of these rights, there is growing recognition of the need to take steps to ensure that women acquire effective rights over land and usufructuary rights over other common properties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement To The Commission On The Status Of Women] Reference

WHEREAS, the late Hugh E. Vincent of New Orleans, Louisiana, whose estate is being administered under No. 304-985 of the docket of the Civil District Court of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, has left a will under which he has named as usufructuary of certain property, his widow Mildred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

Perfect usufruct, which is of things which the usufructuary can enjoy without altering their substance, though their substance may be diminished or deteriorated naturally by time or by the use to which they are applied; as a house, a piece of land, animals, furniture and other movable effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and the "Destruction of Creation" « Climate Audit] Reference

Water, of course, is essential to life, rights to it natural and usufructuary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissident Voice] Reference

As natural rights, water rights are usufructuary rights (water can be used but not owned).    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

But he did advocate a usufructuary approach to the natural world - not an ownership or conquest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kasama] Reference

Every occupant is, then, necessarily a possessor or usufructuary, -- a function which excludes proprietorship.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

According to the Canon Law, the bishop was only the usufructuary of the lands and revenues belonging to his see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference

As before mentioned, the husband, by the Common Law, had an usufructuary interest only in the wife's real estate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legal Status of Woman.] Reference

The nation, in its function of usufructuary, possesses them; the government rules, superintends, and protects them.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

The natural or civil death of the usufructuary extinguished the right, as did non-user and the complete loss of the thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

In a word, the usufructuary is under the supervision of society, submitted to the condition of labor and the law of equality.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

"It is the finding of this court that any communal usufructuary rights of the Arau people to that area of land have not been extinguished", he stated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stabroek News] Reference

Accordingly, if such a slave is instituted heir, or made legatee or donee, the succession, legacy, or gift is acquired, not for the usufructuary, but for the owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Is the right of succession a right of accumulation or only a right of choice? how did the physician's father get his fortune? was he a proprietor, or only a usufructuary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

The first class includes the products of the soil which belong to this first generation in its usufructuary capacity, augmented, improved and refined by its labor and industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

If a man as usufructuary is obliged in justice to preserve his life, it follows that he is equally bound to make use of all the ordinary means which are indicated in the usual course of things, namely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

The tenant, the farmer, the commandité, the usufructuary, are possessors; the owner who lets and lends for use, the heir who is to come into possession on the death of a usufructuary, are proprietors.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

Among most modern nations, the fundamental idea of their land laws, which had their origin in the middle ages, is, that each family is only the usufructuary, and that the community is the sovereign proprietor of the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

In perception of fruits the severance or taking of revenue might be by the owner or by another, as by the usufructuary, the lessee (in locatio-conductio), by the creditor (in antichresis), and by the possessor in good faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

The violation of right lies either in the fact that the holder possesses as proprietor, while he should possess only as usufructuary; or in the fact that he has purchased a thing which no one had a right to transfer or sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

It is also extinguished when surrendered to the owner by the usufructuary (though transfer to a third person is inoperative); and again, conversely, by the fructuary becoming owner of the thing, this being called consolidation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Continue possession as long as you wish, continue it for years and for centuries, you never can give duration -- which of itself creates nothing, changes nothing, modifies nothing -- the power to change the usufructuary into a proprietor.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.] Reference

If the house-plot be used for any other purpose than as the site of the owner's home, the breach of the law involves no punishment, and no force will be brought to bear upon the owner, but the owner at once loses his exclusive right as usufructuary of the plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference

I have been ever your man, and counted myself but an usufructuary of myself, the property being yours; and now making myself an oblation to do with me as may best conduce to the honour of your justice, the honour of your mercy, and the use of your service, resting as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bacon] Reference

"that the government physically appropriated water that Casitas held a usufructuary right in.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)] Reference

(a) the executors during their tenure of office, (b) the widow and usufructuary Mildred Saffold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

2 A usufructuary or usuary slave acquires under the same conditions for him who has the usufruct or use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

A usufructuary; what they acquire by any other mode than the two we have mentioned belongs in the one case to the free man, in the other to the slave's real master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Water is a moveable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Amster: Water, Water Everywhere? Sustaining Scarce Resources in the Desert] Reference

5 Again, the usufructuary of a female slave, who believes her offspring to be his property, and sells or gives it away, does not commit a theft: for theft implies unlawful intention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

"There are some few things which, notwithstanding the general introduction and continuance of property, must still unavoidably remain in common, being such wherein nothing but an usufructuary property is capable of being had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Amster: Water, Water Everywhere? Sustaining Scarce Resources in the Desert] Reference

3 Usufruct determines by the death of the usufructuary, by his undergoing either of the greater kinds of loss of status, by its improper exercise, and by its nonexercise during the time fixed by law; all of which points are settled by our constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Water rights are natural and "usufructuary .... water can be used but not owned;" it belongs to everyone as part of the commons as an essential "basis of all life .... under customary laws, the right to water has been accepted as a natural, social fact.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Indybay newswire] Reference

The duties of the usufructuary are, 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and the "Destruction of Creation" « Climate Audit] Reference

English Dictionary, is usufructuary n.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference