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Many communities in developing countries have usufruct rights over the land they farm.
The priority to usufruct of land will be given to local villagers, though any person may ask for land in any place where he or she wants to live.
As indicated, the mashadd maska was equivalent to the right of usufruct (haqq al-tasarruf) over the land.
Usufruct had long been granted on the basis of continuing cultivation and could be taken away when cultivation was abandoned.
In addition, widows enjoyed a lifetime usufruct of half of their deceased husband's eigen goed.
Today direct violence is also increasingly used to deter women from filing claims, or from exercising the usufruct rights to land that some customarily have.
Usufruct rights were lifelong and extended over many generations.
If the father died first, his widow had usufruct of the property, provided she did not remarry.
Moreover, the state owns the land, giving farmers only temporary usufruct rights.
