An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
USUFRUCT
usufruct
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
usufruct (plural usufructs)
(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.
Synonyms
• liferent (Scots law)
Verb
usufruct (third-person singular simple present usufructs, present participle usufructing, simple past and past participle usufructed)
(law, also figuratively) To use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person.
Source: Wiktionary
U"su*fruct, n. Etym: [L. usufructus, ususfructus, usus et fructus; usus use + fructus fruit.] (Law)
Definition: The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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APPARENTLY
(adverb) from appearances alone; “irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land”; “the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned”; “had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it”-Thomas Hardy; “on the face of it the problem seems minor”
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