Dominium
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Dominium means "dominion; control; ownership".
Use in legal Latin
Latin: Dominium is used in some phrases and maxims in legal Latin:
Dominium directum – Direct ownership, that is control of the property, but not necessarily with right to its utilization or alienation. For example, a holder in life tenure has dominium directum but not dominium utile, because he may control the property but not exhaust its resources. This is to be distinguished from allodial right or fee simple (dominium plenum) and the right retained by the grantor of the life estate who holds the rights to the utilization of the land's resources (dominium utile).
Dominium directum et utile – The complete and absolute dominion in property; the union of the title and the exclusive use. Equivalent in nature to dominium plenum or fee simple.
Dominium eminens – The right of eminent domain.
Dominium non potest esse in pendenti. – Ownership cannot be held in suspense/pendency; property cannot float in an uncertainty.
Dominium plenum – Full or complete ownership of an estate; "fee simple".
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