| Noun | 1. | use - the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" |
| 2. | use - a particular service; "he put his knowledge to good use"; "patrons have their uses" | |
| 3. | use - what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?" | |
| 4. | use - (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" | |
| 5. | use - a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition; "she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair"; "long use had hardened him to it" | |
| 6. | use - (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property; "we were given the use of his boat" Synonyms: enjoyment | |
| 7. | use - exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" Synonyms: manipulation | |
| Verb | 1. | use - put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't make use of this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" |
| 2. | use - take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely" Synonyms: habituate | |
| 3. | use - seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage; "She uses her influential friends to get jobs"; "The president's wife used her good connections" | |
| 4. | use - use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" Synonyms: expend | |
| 5. | use - avail oneself to; "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance" | |
| 6. | use - habitually do something (use only in the past tense); "She used to call her mother every week but now she calls only occasionally"; "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall"; "They used to vacation in the Bahamas" |
USE, estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the
land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the
intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and
suffer him to take the profits. Plowd. 352; Gilb. on Uses, 1; Bac. Tr. 150,
306; Cornish on Uses, 1 3; 1 Fonb. Eq. 363; 2 Id. 7; Sanders on Uses, 2; Co.
Litt. 272, b; 1 Co. 121; 2 Bl. Com. 328; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1885, et seq.
2. In order to create a use, there must always be a good Consideration;
though, when once raised, it may be passed by grant to a stranger, without
consideration. Doct. & Stu., Dial. ch. 22, 23; Rob. Fr. Conv. 87, n.
3. Uses were borrowed from the fidei commissum (q.v.) of the civil law;
it was the duty of a Roman magistrate, the praetor fidei commissarius, whom
Bacon terms the particular chancellor for uses, to enforce the observance of
this confidence. Inst. 2, 23, 2.
4. Uses were introduced into England by the ecclesiastics in the reign
of Edward Ill or Richard II, for the purpose of avoiding the statutes of
mortmain; and the clerical chancellors of those times held them to be fidei
commissa, and binding in conscience. To obviate many inconveniencies and
difficulties, which had arisen out of the doctrine and introduction of uses,
the statute of 274 Henry VIII, c. 10, commonly called the statute of uses,
or in conveyances and pleadings, the statute for transferring uses into
possession, was passed. It enacts, that "when any person shall be seised of
lands, &c., to the use, confidence or trust of any other person or body
politic, the person or corporation entitled to the use in fee simple, fee
tail, for life, or years, or otherwise, shall from thenceforth stand and be
seised or possessed of the land, &c., of and in the like estate as they have
in the use, trust or confidence; and that the estates of the persons so
seised to the uses, shall be deemed to be in him or them that have the use,
in such quality, manner, form and condition, as they had before in the use."
The statute thus executes the use; that is, it conveys the possession to the
use, and transfers the use to the possession; and, in this manner, making
the cestui que use complete owner of the lands and tenements, as well at law
as in equity. 2 Bl. Com. 333; 1 Saund. 254, note 6.
5. A modern use has been defined to be an estate of right, which is
acquired through the operation of the statute of 27 Hen. VIII., c. 10; and
which, when it may take effect according to the rules of the common law, is
called the legal estate; and when it may not, is denominated a use, with a
term descriptive of its modification. Cornish on Uses, 35.
6. The common law judges decided, in the construction of this statute,
that a use could not be raised upon a use; Dyer, 155 A; and that on a
feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs, in trust for C
and his heirs, the statute executed only the first use, and that the second
was a mere nullity. The judges also held that, as the statute mentioned only
such persons as were seised to the use of others, it did not extend to a
term of years, or other chattel interests, of which a termor is not seised
but only possessed. Bac. Tr. 336; Poph. 76; Dyer, 369; 2 Bl. Com. 336; The
rigid literal construction of the statute by the courts of law again opened
the doors of the chancery courts. 1 Madd. Ch. 448, 450.
USE, civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy. 1 Browne's Civ. Law, 184; Lecons Elem. du Dr. Civ. Rom. Sec. 414, 416.
| USE - An early system on the IBM 1103 or 1103A. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. |