Dominus Navis
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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, muito minus superiorem. ‘he king cannot have an equal, much less a superior.
1 Reeves, Eng. Law, 115. DOMIT#H.
Lat. Tame; domesticated; not wild. Applied to domestic animals, in which 4 man may havean absolute property, 2 Bil. Comm. 391,