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Emphyteusis, the jus emphyteuticarium, or as it is more generally called, emphyteusis, was the right of enjoying all the fruits, and disposing at pleasure of the property of another, subject to the payment of a yearly rent (pensio or canon) to the owner. Formerly the lands of the Roman municipalities, or of the college of priests, used to be let for different terms of years, sometimes for a short term, such as five years, sometimes for a term amounting almost to a perpetuity, under the name of agri vectigales (Gai. iii. 145). Afterwards the lands of private individuals were let in a similar manner, and were also comprehended under the term agri vectigales. The emperors let their patrimonial lands in a similar way, and these lands so let were termed emphyteuticarii (C. xi. 58, 61), a name arising from there being a new ownership, or what almost amounted to an ownership, engrafted on the real dominion. Either shortly before or in the time of Justinian, the two rights, that of the ager ve...
Emphyteusis
A real right susceptible of assignment and of descent charged on productive real estate the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes and sometimes a small rent...
Emphyteutic
Of or pertaining to an emphyteusis as emphyteutic lands...
Emphyteuticary
One who holds lands by emphyteusis...
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