Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

DOMINIUM DIRECTUM ET UTILE 388

DOMUS SUA CUIQUE,

The title or property which the sovereign in England is considered as possessing in all the lands of the kingdom, they being holden either immediately or mediately of him as lord paramount. DOMINIUM DIRECTUM ET UTILE. The complete and absolute dominion in property; the union of the title and the ex clusive use. 7 Cranch, 603. DOMINIUM EMINENS. Eminent do main. Dominium non potest esse in pendenti. Lordship cannot be in suspense, i. e., prop erty cannot remain in abeyance. Halk. Law Max. 39. DOMINIUM PLENUM. Full owner ship; the union of the dominium directum with the dominium utile. Tayl. Civil Law, 478. DOMINIUM UTILE. In the civil law. Equitable or praetorian ownership; that which was founded on equity. Mack eld. Bom. Law, § 327, note. In later law. Use without property; the right of a tenant. Tayl. Civil Law, 478. In feudal law. Useful-or beneficial own ership; the usufruct, or right to the use and profits of the soil, as distinguished from the dominium directum, (q. v.,) or ownership of the soil itself; the right of a vassal or ten ant. 2 Bl. Comm. 105. DOMINO VOLENTE. Lat. The own er being willing; with the consent of the owner. DOMINUS. In feudal and ecclesias tical law. A lord, or feudal superior. Dominus rex, the lord the king; the king's title as lord paramount. 1 Bl. Comm. 367. Dominus capitalis, a chief lord. Dominus medius, a mesne or intermediate lord. Dom~ inus ligius, liege lord or sovereign. Id. Lord or sir; a title of distinction. It usually denoted a knight or clergyman; and, according to Cowell, was sometimes given to a gentleman of quality, though not a knight, especially if he were lord of a manor. The owner or proprietor of a thing, as distinguished from him who uses it merely. Calvin. A master or principal, as distin guished from an agent or attorney. Story, Ag. § 3. In the oivil law. A husband. A fami ly. Vicat. Dominus capitalis loco hseredis habe tur, quoties per defectum vel delictum

extinguitur sanguls aui tenentis. Go. Litt. 18. The supreme lord takes the place of the heir, as often as the blood of the ten ant is extinct through deficiency or crime. DOMINUS LITIS. Lat. The master of the suit; i. e., 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 applied to one who, though not originally a party, has made him self such, by intervention or otherwise, and has assumed entire control and responsibility for one side, and is treated by the court as liable for costs. See 1 Curt. 201. DOMINUS NAVIS. In the civil law. The owner of a vessel. Dig. 39, 4, 11, 2. Dominus non maritabit pupillum nisi semel. Co. Litt. 9. A lord cannot give a ward in marriage but once. Dominus rex nullum habere potest parem, multo minus superiorem. The king cannot have an equal, much less a su perior. 1 Beeves, Eng. Law, 115. DOMITJE. Lat. Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, in which a man may have an absolute property. 2 Bl. Comm. 391. DOMMAGES INTERETS. In French law. Damages. DOMO REPARANDA". A writ that lay for one against his neighbor, by the antici pated fall of whose house he feared a damage and injury to his own. Beg. Orig. 153. DOMUS. Lat. In the civil and old En glish law. A house or dwelling; a habita tion. Inst. 4,4,8; Townsh. PI. 183-185. DOMUS CAPITULARIS. In old rec ords. A chapter-house; the chapter-house. Dyer, 266. DOMUS CONVERSORUM. An an cient house built or appointed by King Henry III. for such Jews as were converted to the Christian faith; but King Edward III., who expelled the Jews from the kingdom, deputed the place for the custody of the rolls and records of the chancery. Jacob. DOMUS DEI. The house of God; a name applied to many hospitals and religions houses. DOMUS PROCERUM. The house of lords, abbreviated into Dom. Proe., or 2>. P. Domus sua ouique est tutissimum refugium. To every man his own house if

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