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Use and Habitation (USO E ABITAZIONE)
Use is a limited form of usufruct (v.) and the right of habitation is a particularity of use that has as its object a house. Use differs from usufruct by the… -
Useful (UTILE)
Utility, according to its very etymology, indicates that instrumental good which a subject perceives as a means of satisfying its needs or interests, or that… -
Usener, Hermann
Protestant, classical philologist and historian of religions, b. at Weilburg on 23 Oct. 1834, d. at Bonn on 21 Oct. 1905. He taught at the Universities of… -
Uses (USI)
It is the traditional opinion (though not without opposition) that uses (understood in a generic sense as equivalent to customs) are sources of objective law.… -
Uspenskij, Teddoro
Born at Nizhny Novgorod on 7 February 1845, died probably at Leningrad on 1 September 1928, one of the most authoritative Russian Byzantinists, founder and… -
Usuard (USUARDO)
Benedictine of St-Germain-des-Près (Paris), author of a martyrology, d. around 875-77, on January 13. Nothing is known of his origins. He was a professed… -
Usucapion (USUCAPIONE)
USUCAPIONE: v. PRESCRIZIONE. -
Usufruct (USUFRUTTO)
It is the right to enjoy another's property and its fruits, with the burden of the expenses and the care of preserving and maintaining it. The definition… -
Usurpation of Ecclesiastical Goods (USURPAZIONE DEI BENI ECCLESIASTICI)
It is the despoiling or misappropriation of ecclesiastical property by private individuals or even (as often happens on a large scale) by public authority.… -
Usury (USURA)
The term has two acceptations, one absolute, the other relative to interest. In the first case usury is the profit received from a loan as if it were owed by…