In Roman law, a person with the legal right to enjoy the fruits or benefits of another's property without owning it.
From Latin fructuarius, derived from fructus (fruit, profit, benefit). This Roman legal term refers to the right of usufruct—using property's benefits without owning it.
A fructuarius is a legal category that Roman lawyers invented for situations we'd now handle with leases or trusts. If a slave had the right to eat fruit from an orchard they didn't own, they were technically a fructuarius—showing how ancient property law was far more nuanced than we often imagine.
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