Dominium

'''' means "dominion; control; ownership".

==Use in legal Latin== is used in some phrases and maxims in legal Latin: Dominium directum – Direct ownership, that is control of the property, but not necessarily with right to its utilization or alienation. For example, a holder in life tenure has dominium directum but not dominium utile'', because he may control the property but not exhaust its resources. This is to be distinguished from allodial right or fee simple (dominium plenum) and the right retained by the grantor of the life estate who holds the rights to the utilization of the land's resources (dominium utile). Dominium directum et utile – The complete and absolute dominion in property; the union of the title and the exclusive use. Equivalent in nature to dominium plenum or fee simple. – The right of eminent domain. . – Ownership cannot be held in suspense/; property cannot float in an uncertainty. – Full or complete ownership of an estate; "fee simple". Dominium utile – Beneficial ownership of an estate. A holder of the reversion of a life estate holds the dominium utile of the property (although not the control or dominium directum) because he has the right to the long-term utilization any resources (mineral, vegetative, etc.) on the property but not to the immediate use of the property–the holder of the life estate has control of the property. Duorum in solidum dominium vel possessio esse non potest – Sole ownership or possession cannot be in two persons.