A community member could lose those usufruct rights if they did not cultivate the land.

Because of the usufruct rights over the communally held land, legal residency in the Territory is a significant issue.

Men generally have disposal rights over land, while women have mostly usufruct rights.

Proudhon favored another kind, which he called possession, based on occupancy and use, a sort of usufruct rights idea.

Productive resources would be legally owned by the cooperative and rented to the workers, who would enjoy usufruct rights.

Given the complex pattern of land ownership and usufruct rights, this would have also been very impractical and possibly inequitable.

Customary owners may grant passage or usufruct rights over the land they occupy, thereby qualifying their own rights.

Villein land belonged to the estates, but tenants normally exercised hereditary usufruct rights in exchange for fulfilling their corvée obligations.

In forestry policy, the main issues for SWC are providing secure tenure and usufruct rights to encourage planting and protection of trees by farmers.

Fribourg granted Gümmenen to one of their citizens, but in 1389, Bern acquired the usufruct right to Gümmenen.

Carib residents instead have usufruct rights: they can claim vacant, unused land to work and build a home upon, subject to approval by the Carib Council.

In this respect, it is important to mention that floodplain dwellers do not own the land or water they use, but generally maintain usufruct rights to these resources through regular access.

Although the 1981 Constitution stated that the land and other natural resources were state property, it gave the citizens usufruct rights to land allotted for a house and garden by the state.

In addition, the central Ministry of Environment and Forests issued guidelines in 1990 on involving village communities in protecting degraded forests while assuring them usufruct rights over these areas.

According to this system, all descendants (both male and female) of an individual founder were entitled to a share, and individuals had the right to use (a usufruct right) a plot of family land.

In parts of West Africa on the other hand (e.g. Burkina Faso, the Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria), women generally have usufruct rights to separate holdings through their husband’s lineage.

The Ottoman's imposed a legal system that sought to maintain nomadic legal rights by transferring title of commonly held community tribal land to the government, and establishing Usufruct rights of nomadic herders and farmers.

As part of the Biitan-akiing-enabijig Ojibwe, Mille Lacs Indians ceded great tract of land in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, but retained usufruct rights for hunting, fishing and gathering.

In this treaty, the two Ojibwe groups ceded a large tract of land covering northwest Minnesota, excluding the northwest-most corner of Minnesota, retained their usufruct rights upon the land, and had nine small Indian Reservations established for the said groups:

Native American law conceived only the possibility of usufruct rights, the right, that is, to own the nuts or fish or wood that land or bodies of water produced, or the right to hunt, fish or live on the land, there was no possibility of owning the land itself.

The procedures include facilitation of real estate registration; enabling use of usufruct rights as a guarantee for loans; and enabling banks to register pledges on real estate and foreclose in cases of non-payment.