Search results for: “usufruct”
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Consolidation
In Civil Law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person, which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa. In either case the usufruct is extinct. Lee. Elm. 424. It may take place in two ways: First, by the usufructuary […]
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Patria Potestas
(Lat.) In civil law. The paternal power; the authority which the law vests in the father over the persons and property of his legitimate children. One of the effects of marriage is the paternal authority over the children born in wedlock. In the early period of the Roman history, the […]
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Patria Potestas
(Lat.) In civil law. The paternal power; the authority which the law vests in the father over the persons and property of his legitimate children. One of the effects of marriage is the paternal authority over the children born in wedlock. In the early period of the Roman history, the […]
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Use
To put into practice; employ habitually as in to use diligence. To occupy and enjoy the fruits of, as in using lands and tenements. To employ for the accomplishment of a purpose. To utilise for a particular purpose as in using a certain name in one’s business. The term also means benefit as […]
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Aliquid Possessionis Et Nihil Juris
(Law Lat.) Somewhat of possession, and nothing of right (but no right). A phrase used by Bracton to describe that kind of possession which a person might have of a thing as a guardian, creditor, or the like, and also that kind of possession which was granted for a term of years, where nothing […]