Civil Code Art. 572: Rights of the Usufructuary

Statute: Civil Code
Article: Art. 572
Topic: Rights of the Usufructuary
Book: BOOK II PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS
Title: TITLE VI USUFRUCT
Chapter: CHAPTER 2 Rights of the Usufructuary
Formerly: Art. 480 of the old Civil Code
Year: 1949

The provision

The usufructuary may personally enjoy the thing in usufruct, lease it to another, or alienate his right of usufruct, even by a gratuitous title; but all the contracts he may enter into as such usufructuary shall terminate upon the expiration of the usufruct, saving leases of rural lands, which shall be considered as subsisting during the agricultural year. (480)

Cases applying this article

Domingo Lao v. The Heirs of Lorenza Alburo G.R. No. 10372

Related provisions in this Chapter

Civil Code, Art. 573 Rights of the Usufructuary
Civil Code, Art. 568 Rights of the Usufructuary
Civil Code, Art. 579 Rights of the Usufructuary
Civil Code, Art. 580 Rights of the Usufructuary
Civil Code, Art. 581 Rights of the Usufructuary
Civil Code, Art. 582 Rights of the Usufructuary

Civil Code, Art. 572 is found in CHAPTER 2 Rights of the Usufructuary of TITLE VI USUFRUCT of BOOK II PROPERTY, OWNERSHIP, AND ITS MODIFICATIONS of the Civil Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No. 386).

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