USHER

(Probably from the Fr. hui ier.) An officer who has the care of the door of a court or hall, . In the court of England, he is an officer of considerable rank, whose busine it is to introduce foreign amba adors or other high strangers to the sovereign. U8QUEBAUGH. A strong compound liquor, made in greatest perfection at Drogheda in Ireland. Brandy or other spirits, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and various other spices are iis Ingredients. USTRINUM, or USTRl' NA. (Lat. uro, I burn.) In Roman Antiquities, a public burning-place, enclosed by wails, in which bodies, mostly of the poorer sort of people, were consumed. An ustrinum, according to Montfaucon, was square, and in compa about 300 feet. In the Arch (vol. xxvi.) will be found a detailed account of the site of one recently discovered in Cambridge shire, which appears to have been of rather large dimensions. IrSTULATION. (Lat.) A term of old Pharmacy, implying the gradual desiccation and torrefaction of subIPTION. In Civil Law, the acquisition of property in anything by po e ion and enjoyment for a certain term of years; commonly considered as synonymous with prescription, although some have restrained the use of the former term to moveables only. I "SI IK I CT, in the Civil Law, is defined to be the right of enjoying indefinitely something belonging to another without diminishing its substance. Usufruct differs from use; because he who has the use of a thing can only enjoy it personally, whereas the right of him who has the usufruct is alienable, and may lie granted, sold, or hired to another. Usufruct may be constituted in four ways; by con by will, by judgment of a court (as where the judge, In effecting a division of common property, may, under certain circumstances, instead of dividing the inheritance, allot the iisiifrucl to one, and the thing to another), and by operation nf law. Usufruct is, properly speakine, confined to things real, anil to incorporeal rights (whether they would be termed real or personal, according lo the division of our [s. 1303]