Dominium
idea · 3 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
dominium · ownership · civil dominium · dominion · private ownership · property · proprietas · sovereignty
spoken of as
2 expressionsDominion and property“dominium”1 mention
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) (English)
Atqui Indi cum ad eos Lusitani venerunt, etsi partim idololatrae, partim Mahumetani erant, gravibusque peccatis involuti nihilominus publice atque privatim rerum possessionumque suarum dominium habuerunt, quod illis sine iusta causa eripi non potuit.
sovereignty and ownership“dominium”1 mention
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) (English)
and ‘sovereignty’ or ‘ownership’, meant the privilege of lawfully using common property.
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The legal concept of exclusive private ownership, as distinguished historically from primordial common use.
Sciendum est igitur in primordiis vitae humanae aliud quam nunc est dominium, aluid communionem fuisse.
Ad eam vero, quae nunc est, dominiorum distinctionem non impetu quodam, sed paulatim ventum videtur, initium eius monstrante natura.
Cuius ratione dominium quoddam erat, sed universale, et indefinitum;
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman law concept of absolute ownership, defined by powers of use, enjoyment, exclusion, and disposition
Ownership (dominium) absolute or pre-eminently so called, may be defined as a right of unlimited duration, imparting to the owner a power of indefinite enjoyment or use, and a power of aliening from all who in default of alienation by him might succeed by descent;
All the things within the territory of a given state are subject to its dominion (dominium eminens), that is, are res publicae in a general sense of the term.
Ownership (dominium) is a right against the world which gives to the party in whom it resides a power of dealing with the subject which is not capable of exact definition.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Roman legal term for ownership power over slaves and inanimate property.
We cannot give a reason, other than mere chance, why power over a wife should have retained the name of manus, why power over a child should have obtained another name, potestas, why power over slaves and inanimate property should in later times be called dominium.