In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
- According to her husband's testament, the lady was returned her dowry and was given the usufruct of her husband's landed property.
- Landowners do not own groundwater as owner of the land, they just have a right to the usufruct of the water and not the water itself.
- In men's wills, usufruct on the husband's property is left to widows under condition that they give up their right to dowry and extradotal goods in favour of offspring.
- This surrender took place in order to obtain the protection of the lord or to gain the usufruct of land.
- It is widely recognized that agriculture, wherein crops can grow again and no serious effect is made on the soil or the land, is an appropriate usage of the right of usufruct.
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