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  • n  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

  • Antioch College this June reaped precious usufruct of its work-study plan.
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  • Thomas Jefferson in History News Network
    In a 1789 letter to his friend James Madison, Jefferson wrote that "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living" and "the dead have neither powers nor rights over it" -- that is, the dead should not control the opportunities of the next...
  • William F Buckley Jr in The Progress Report
    In a C-span interview with Brian Lamb in 2000, Buckley quoted Henry George, "The land belongs to those in usufruct."
  • Robert Mugabe in AllAfrica.com
    Security of tenure for A1 farmers will be resolved through the issuance of usufruct permits,Mugabe said.

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