Sp. In Spanish law. A term corresponding to and derived from the Latindominium, (q. v.) Dominio alto, eminent domain ; dominio dirccto, immediateownership; dominio utile, beneficial ownership . Hart v. […]

Ownership, or right to property. 2 Bl. Comm. 1. Title to an article ofproperty which arises from the power of disposition and the right of claiming it Bilker v.Westcott, 73 […]

In the civil and old English law. Ownership; property in the largestsense, including both the right of property and the right of possession or use.The mere right of property, as […]

In the civil law . Strict ownership; that which was founded onstrict law, as distinguished from equity. In later law. Property without use; the right of alandlord. Tayl. Civil Law, […]

The complete and absolute dominion in property; the union of the title and the exclusive use. Fairfax v. Hunter, 7 Cranch, 003.3 L. Ed. 453.

Full ownership; the union of the dominium directum with the dominium utile . Tayl. Civil Law, 478.

In the civil law . Equitable or pnetorian ownership; that which was founded on equity. Mackeld.Rom. Law,

Lat. The owner being willing; with the consent of the owner.

In feudal and ecclesiastical law . A lord, or feudal superior. Dominus rex,the lord the king; the king’s title as lord paramount. 1 Bl. Comm. 307. Dominuscapitalis, a chief lord. […]

Lat. The master of the suit; i., the person who was really and directly interested in the suit as a party, as distinguished from his attorney or advocate.But the term […]

In the civil law . The owner of a vessel. Dig. 39. 4, 11. 2.Dominus non maritabit pupillum nisi emel. Co. Litt. 9. A lord cannot give a ward in […]

Lat. Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals , in which a man may have an absolute property. 2 Bl. Comm. 391.

In French law . Damages.

In old records. A chapter-house; the chapter-house. Dyer, 206.

An ancient house built or appointed by King Henry III. for suchJews as were converted to the Christian faith; but King Edward III., who expelled theJews from the kingdom, deputed […]

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A mansion house. 1 Hale, P. C. 558; State v. Brooks, 4 Conn. 440; State v. Sutcliffe, 4 Strob. (S. C.) 370.

The house of lords, abbreviated into Bom. Proc., or D. P.Domus sna cuique est tutissimnm re- fugium. To every man his own house is hissafest refuge. 5 Coke, 916; 11 […]

A writ that lay for one against his neighbor, by the anticipatedfall of whose house he feared a damage and injury to his own. Reg. Orig. 153.DOMUS. Lat. In the […]

A donee; one to whom something is given.

Lat A gift. A transfer of the title to property to ODe who receives Itwithout paying for it Vicat. The act by which the owner of a thing voluntarily transfersthe […]

An inofficious (undu- tiful) gift; a gift of so great a part of thedonor’s property that the birthright portion of his heirs is diminished. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A gift between the living. The ordinary kind of gift byone person to another. 2 Kent, Coram. 438; 2 Steph. Coram. 102. A term derived fromthe civil law. Inst. 2, […]

A gift made by a person in sickness, who, apprehending his dissolution near, delivers, or causes to be delivered, to another the possession of any personal goods, to keep as […]

A gift on account of marriage. In Romanlaw, the bridegroom’s gift to the bride in antipication of marriage and to secure her doswas called “donatio ante nuptias;” but by an […]