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noun 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
originFrom Late Latin ūsufrūctus, from ūsus + frūctus (“usage of the fruits of production”). Cognate with French usufruit, Italian usufrutto, usofrutto, Occitan usufrug, Portuguese usufruto, Spanish usufructo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0