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contracts. The illegal profit which is required and received by the lender of a sum of money from the borrower for its use. In a more extended and improper sense, it is the receipt of any profit whatever for the use of money: it is only in the first of these senses that usury will be here considered. 2. To constitute a usurious contract the following are the requisites: 1. A … [Read more...] about USURY

Lat. In the civil law. To have the full use and enjoyment of a thing, without damage to its substance. Calvin. … [Read more...] about UTI FRUI

Lat. In Roman law. A precarious enjoyment of land, corresponding with the right of habitatio of houses, and being closely analogous to the tenancy at sufferance or at will of English law. The usuarius (i.e. tenant by usus) could only hold on so long as the owner found him convenient, and had to go so soon as ever he was in the owner's way, (motestus.) The usuarius could not … [Read more...] about USUS

Lat. In international law. Warlike uses or objects. It is the usus hellici which determine an article to be contraband. 1 Kent, Comm. 141. Usus est dominium fidnoiarinm. Bac.St Uses. Use is a fiduciary dominion. Usus et status sive possessio potins diffemnt secundum rationem fori, quam secundum rationem rei. Bac. St. Uses. Use and estate, or possession, differ more in the rule … [Read more...] about USUS BELLICI

Lat. In Roman law. Usufruct; usufructuary right or possession. The temporary right of using a thing, without having the ultimate property, or full dominion, of the substance. 2 Bl. Comm. 327. … [Read more...] about USUS FRUCTUS