Easement vs. Usufruct — What's the Difference?

An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it. It is "best typified in the right of way which one landowner, A, may enjoy over the land of another, B".

Usufruct () is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed jurisdictions that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus: Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed, directly and without altering it. Fructus (fruit, in a figurative sense) is the right to derive profit from a thing possessed: for instance, by selling crops, leasing immovables or annexed movables, taxing for entry, and so on.A usufruct is either granted in severalty or held in common ownership, as long as the property is not damaged or destroyed.

The act of easing or the condition of being eased.

The right to the use and profits of something belonging to another.

Something that affords ease or comfort.

(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.

(Law) A right to make limited use of another's land, such as a right of way.

To use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person.

(law) An interest in land which grants 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).

The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance.

(architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.

A legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way

(archaic) Easing; relief; assistance; support.

The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.

(model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.

Gratification. en

That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.

A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.

A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.

(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)

The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance);