Dominant
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
That to which a servitude or easement is duo, or for the l enefit of which ■ is. Distinguished from that from which it is due. DOMINICUM (tat. domain; domain: demesne).
A lordship
That of which one has the lord-hip or ownership. That which remains under the lord's iinined e and control In this sense It Is equivalent to the Saxor. lands. Spelman, Gloss.; Dlount. In I hommerely, the dominioum was in the tenant. Jn Domesday EJOOk it meant the home farm as distinguished from the o< »f the tenants.
Vlnogradoff, EngL S Century 353.
Property; domain; anything pertain a lord. Cowell. in Ecclesiastical Law. A church, or any other building consecrated to <;<'d. Du Cange.