Definition of "dominium" [dominium]

• In civil law, the ownership of a thing, as opposed to a mere life interest, to an equitable right, to a merely possessory right, or to a right against a particular person. (noun)
• The right of the feudal lord in land, as distinguished from that of his vassal. (noun)
• The right of the landlord in land, as distinguished from that of his tenant. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In some cases, God infuses the artificial property-relations that we call dominium with sufficient grace to make them generally equivalent to prelapsarian dominium."
• "In this essay, the Latin term dominium will be used to distinguish Wyclif's theologically medieval view from its modern English correlate"
• "When Christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire, the early Christian teachings on land were overtaken by the Roman land laws of "dominium" - a legalization of property in land originally obtained by conquest and plunder."