Obs. Also 5 Sc. vse-fruyt, 7 usufrute. [a. OF. (and F.) usufruit (13th c.), ad. late L. ūsū-fructus USUFRUCT sb.] = USUFRUCT sb. 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 ye 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 discoverer [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.
