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

In old English law. Lordship

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

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

The act of killing one’s lord or master

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

In old English law. Ancient demesne. Bract, fol. 3096.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Eminent domain

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. Dominus mcdius, a

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 is also

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 marriage but once.Dominus

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