Meaning & use
Dominium
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Absolute legal ownership or lordship over property, especially as understood in Roman law and later international and property law.
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Roman law distinguished dominium, or full ownership, from mere possession of a thing.
Legal scholars still invoke the concept of dominium when analyzing modern property disputes rooted in Roman legal tradition.
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The Latin root of 'dominium' also gives English words like 'dominion,' 'dominate,' and 'condominium,' which literally means joint ownership.
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ownershiplordship
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