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law chapter 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| property law | law dealing with ownership |
| personal rights | generally only binding between two or more specific parties |
| ownership | the state or fact of owning something exclusive |
| usufruct | the tight to use and enjoy someone else's property without owning it |
| usus(user) | the right to use someone else's property |
| fructus | the right to derive profit from someone else's property |
| bare ownership | owership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property |
| right of habitation | a specific right for a person to live in a house, to use a home, or to use a part of a house with their family |
| servitude | is a charge on an immovable object for the use and utility of an immovable object of another owner |
| right of ephyteusis | usually a long-term lease of land for erecting buildings or making land improvements |
| superficies | the right to have ownership of an immovable object on someone else's land |
| priority right | a special property right that comes into existence by operation of law accessory to an existing claim |
| hypothec | a property security right in respect of an immovable object |
| pledge | in order to secure the performance of an obligation |
| possessory pledge | a legal arrangement where a person holds possession of someone else's property as a security for a debt owed to them |
| non-possessory pledge | the pledged property remains with the borrower, but the lender has a right to claim it if the borrower defaults on the loan |
| right of possession | means that the party is officialy allowed to occupy and exercise direct control over a piece of real property |