† ˈusufruit Obs.
Also 5 Sc. vse-fruyt, 7 usufrute.
[a. OF. (and F.) usufruit (13th c.), ad. late L. ūsū-fructus usufruct n.]
= usufruct n. 1.
| 1478 Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 13/1 Robert nor nane vþeris..has þe vse fruyt of þer wifis propir landis for þer life tyme. 1547 Bk. of Marchauntes d iiij, Possession was..adiugged to hym in herytage wyth y⊇ vsufruits of the tres growing ther. a 1577 Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. iii. viii. (1589) 134 The husband shal haue the vsufruite of her landes. 1604 E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xi. 240 The vsufruite was adiudged to him by sentence as the dicoverer [of the mine]. 1689 [see prec.]. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Substitution, Certain Persons, who are likewise to have the Usu-fruit in their Times, but never the Property. |