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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,