La. Civ. Code art. 538 : Civil Code — THINGS AND THE DIFFERENT MODIFICATIONS OF OWNERSHIP — PERSONAL SERVITUDES — USUFRUCT — GENERAL PRINCIPLES — Usufruct of consumable things TEXT PDF If the things subject to the usufruct are consumables, the usufructuary becomes owner of them. He may consume, alienate, or encumber them as he sees fit. At the termination of the usufruct he is bound either to pay to the naked owner the value that the things had at the commencement of the usufruct or to deliver to him things of the same quantity and quality. La. C.C. § 538 Acts 1976, No. 103, §1; Acts 2010, No. 881, §1, eff. 7/2/2010.