16. The usufructuary or the institute in a substitution possessing in such capacity one or more of the lands to which this act applies, the tutor, curator, testamentary executor, administrator, agent or attorney of the proprietor of one or more of such lands, shall be considered as proprietor of said land and shall have all the rights and be subject to all the obligations of a proprietor for the purposes of this Act.
R. S. 1964, c. 322, s. 16.