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DOMIEILC OF ORIGIN

The home of the parents. Phillim. Doni. 25, 101. Thatwhich arises from a man’s birth and connections. 5 Yes. 750. The domicile of theparents at the time of birth, or what is

ELECTED DOMICILE

The domicile of parties fixed in a contract between them forthe purposes of such contract. Woodworth v. Bank of America, 19 Johns. (N. Y.) 417. 10 Am. Dec. 239.

DOMICILIARY

Pertaining to domicile; relating to one’s domicile. Existing or created at, or connected with, the domicile of a suitor or of a decedent.

DOMICILIATE

To establish one’s domicile ; to take up one’s fixed residence in agiven place. To establish the domicile of another person whose legal residence follows one’s own.

DOMICILIATION

In Spanish law. The acquisition of domiciliary rights and status,nearly equivalent to naturalization, which may be accomplished by being born in thekingdom, by conversion to the Catholic faith there, by taking up

DOMINA, (DAME)

A title given to honorable women, who anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony. Cowell.

DOMINANT TENEMENT

A term used in the civil and Scotch law, and thence in ours,relating to servitudes, meaning the tenement or subject in favor of which the service isconstituted ; as the tenement over

DOMINICA FALMARUM

(Dominica in ramis palmarum.) L. Lat. Palm Sunday. Townsh. PI. 131; Cowell; Blount.

DOMINICAL

That which denotes the Lord’s day, or Sunday.

DOMINICUM

Lat. Domain; demain; demesne. A lordship. That of which one has thelordship or ownership. That which remains under the lord’s immediate charge and control. Spelman.Property; domain; anything pertaining to a lord. Cowell.In

DOMINIO

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. Burnett, 15 Cal. 556.

DOMINION

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

DOMINIUM

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 distinguished from

DOMINIUM DIRECTUM

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, 478. In feudal

DOMINIUM DIRECTUM ET UTILE

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.

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