Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
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In this essay, the Latin term dominium will be used to distinguish Wyclif's theologically medieval view from its modern English correlate
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy Lahey, Stephen 2006
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In some cases, God infuses the artificial property-relations that we call dominium with sufficient grace to make them generally equivalent to prelapsarian dominium.
John Wyclif's Political Philosophy Lahey, Stephen 2006
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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.
P2P Foundation 2009
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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.
P2P Foundation 2009
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This right of disposal which the civil power exercises over property has been called dominium altum, but the term is misleading and should be avoided.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Now, abstracting from the qualification of an actual dominium, which is not alleged, I have great doubts whether a mere convicium is necessarily transmitted from one object to another, through the relation of a dominium subsisting between them; and if not necessarily transmissible, we must see the principle of its actual transmission here; and that has not yet been pointed out.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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Seventeenth-century philosopher Hugo Grotius coined the Latin phrase dominium eminens
Everything2 New Writeups notNEAL 2010
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All which is summed up by Wyclif in his proposition: any "dominium" has grace for its foundation.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187.
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Spain blockaded Gibraltar for most of the last third of the 20th century (they gave up in 1984) and when the Blair government in Britain negotiated a co-dominium with Spain in 2002, but the locals had to be consulted, and the referendum rejected the proposal by 17,900 to 187.
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