General Overview of the Real Rights of Use under the Georgian Property Law

Abstract

This article examines in short the real rights of use – superficies, easements and usufruct under the Georgian law. According tothe Civil Code of Georgia, real rights of use entitle a person to use the immovable property in different ways: in case of superficiesa person has the hereditary and transferable right to erect on or beneath the other person’s plot of land a construction;praedial easement is a real right which entitles the owner of a plot of land, to use the other person’s plot of land within certainlimits; usufruct means the right to use the immovable property like its owner excluding third persons from its use without theright to alienate, mortgage or transfer this immovable property by inheritance.