different between easement vs usufruct

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?zm(?)nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?izm?nt/
• Hyphenation: ease?ment

Noun

easement (countable and uncountable, plural easements)

2. (law) The legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way).
3. (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
4. (archaic) Easing, relief.
   • 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bvnyan, London: Printed by George Larkin, OCLC 12787585; 6th corr. edition, London: Printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Pea-cock in the Poultry, over against the Stocks-Market, 1688, OCLC 643954458, pages 92–93:

     But now, thought I, if this ?in is not unto death, then it is pardonable; therefore from this I have encouragement to come to God by Chri?t for mercy; to con?ider the promi?e of forgivene?s, as that which ?tands with open arms to receive me, as well as others. This therefore was a great ea?ement to my mind; to wit, that my ?in was pardonable, that it was not the ?in unto death, […]
5. (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
6. (model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
7. Assistance.
8. Support.
9. Gratification.

Derived terms

• (act of relieving oneself): do one's easement, house of easement, stool of easement

Translations

Further reading

• easement (law) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tee-names

English

Alternative forms

• usufruit (obsolete)

Etymology

From Late Latin ?sufr?ctus, from Latin ?sus-fr?ctus, ?sus et fr?ctus (“use and enjoyment”). Cognate with French usufruit, Italian usufrutto, usofrutto, Occitan usufrug, Portuguese usufruto, Spanish usufructo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?z(j)?f??kt/
• (General American) enPR: yo?o?z?-fr?kt', -s?-, IPA^(key): /?juz??f??kt/, /-s?-/,
• Hyphenation: usu?fruct

Noun

usufruct (plural usufructs)

1. (law) The legal right to use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person, as long as the property is not damaged.
   • 1931 September, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, “The Boon of Culture”, in The American Mercury, Torrance, Calif.: American Mercury, ISSN 0002-998X, ?OCLC, page 36; reprinted in H. L. Mencken, editor, A Mencken Chrestomathy: Edited and Annotated by the Author, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, May 1982, ?ISBN, part XVII (Pedagogy), page 313:

     Every American college president, it appears, is in duty bound to write and utter at least one book upon the nature, aims and usufructs of the Higher Education.

Synonyms

• liferent (Scots law)

Derived terms

• usufruction
• usufructuary

Translations

Verb

usufruct (third-person singular simple present usufructs, present participle usufructing, simple past and past participle usufructed)

1. (law, also figuratively) To use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person.
   • 1994, Abdullah Alwi Haji Hassan, “Loans, Deposit and al-?ajr”, in Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law, Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, (Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad; no. 92), ?ISBN, ?OCLC; republished Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: The Other Press, 2007, ?ISBN, page 199:

     The use of the property of an orphan by a guardian who carries out his guardianship, is allowed for the latter's daily subsistence. Such use should be just and reasonable. […] According to al-Sha'bá, such just and reasonable use is like usufructing the milk of cattle, having services from servants and riding animals or vehicles, as long as such usufruction does not impair or damage the property itself.

Translations

Further reading

• usufruct on Wikipedia.Wikipedia