Section 11 Enemy Property in Occupied Territory
By Art. 55 of The Hague Règlement of 1899, which reproduces Art. 7 of the Brussels Projet, and is repeated as Art. 55 of the Règlement of 1907: “The occupying State shall regard itself as being only administrator and usufructuary of the public buildings, immoveable property, forests and agricultural undertakings belonging to the hostile State and situated in the hostile country. It must protect the substance of these properties and administer them according to the rules of usufruct.”
The following letter touches incidentally upon the description of the rights of an invader over certain kinds of State property in the occupied territory as being those of a “usufructuary.”