Domain

Dominion; territory governed. Possession; estate. Land about the mansion-house of a lord. The right to dispose at our pleasure of what belongs to us. A distinction has been made between property and domain. The former is said to be that quality which is conceived to be in the thing itself, considered as belonging to such or such person, exclusively of all others. By the latter is understood that right which the owner has of disposing of the thing. Hence domain and property are said to be correlative terms; the one is the active right to dispose of, the other a passive quality which follows the thing and places it at the disposition of the owner.

3 Toullier, n. 83.

But this distinction is too subtle for practical use.

Puffendorff, Droit de la Nat. 1. 4. c. 4, 106 § 2. See 1 Bla. Com. 105; Clef des Lois Rom.; Domat; 1 Hill, Abr. 24; 2 id. 237; Eminent Domain.

DOMBOC (spelled, also, often dombec. Sax.). The name of codes of laws among the Saxons. Of these King Alfred's was the most famous.

1 Bla. Com. 46; 4 id. 411.

The domboc of king Alfred is not to be confounded with the domesday-book of William the Conqueror. DOME (Sax.). Doom; sentence; judgment.

An oath

The homager's oath in the black book of Hereford.

See Doom.