Usufruct used in a sentence

Usufruct in a sentence as a noun

"The Earth belongs in usufruct to the living.

They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.

> Look up usufruct and Jefferson's views on the topic.

Look up usufruct and Jefferson's views on the topic.

Nice quote, but..."The Earth belongs in usufruct to the living; the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Transferring usufruct of your labour != transferring your life.

I am strongly against land covenants, and support the Jeffersonian maxim that the Earth should belong in usufruct to the living.

I'm just going to put this here, re: trust law:"I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self evident, "_that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living_;" that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Or rather, to let them free after legally removing their titles and distributing those means to everyone on a usufruct/personal-usage basis.

For example, the bare owner of a property has no right to occupy it or rent it out. On the other hand, when the usufruct holder dies, full ownership of the property is carried over to the bare owner without any liability for inheritance tax.

Should we revive slavery?Here's what one guy who had to miss the Constitutional convention because he was serving his nation abroad had to say:"I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living.

The course of reflection in which we are immersed here on the elementary principles of society has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof.--I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

"Others wanted to go much further; Thomas Paine, like Smith and Jefferson, made much of the idea that landed property itself was an affront to the natural right of each generation to the usufruct of the earth, and proposed a "ground rent" — in fact an inheritance tax — on property at the time it is conveyed at death, with the money so collected to be distributed to all citizens at age 21, "as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property.