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Nießbrauch

Substantiv

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usufruct

noun

Comparative law notes

Germany

Usus (user) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it. Fructus (fruit, in a figurative sense) is the right to derive profit from a thing possessed: for instance, by selling crops, leasing immovables or annexed movables, taxing for entry, and so on.

Definitions of usufruct

English

the right to enjoy the use and benefits of another's property

He has a usufruct right to use water from his neighbors stream in order to generate electrical power.