dominion

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do·min·ion / dəˈminyən/ • n. 1. sovereignty; control: man's attempt to establish dominion over nature.2. (usu. dominions) the territory of a sovereign or government: the Angevin dominions. ∎  (Dominion) hist. each of the self-governing territories of the British Commonwealth.3. (dominions) another term for domination (sense 2).

Dominion

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DOMINION

Perfect control in right of ownership. The word implies both title and possession and appears to require a complete retention of control over disposition. Title to an article of property, which arises from the power of disposition and the right of claiming it. Sovereignty; as in the dominion of the seas or over a territory.

Incivil law, with reference to the title to property that is transferred by a sale of it, dominion is said to be either proximate or remote, the former being the kind of title vesting in the purchaser when he or she has acquired both the ownership and the possession of the article, the latter describing the nature of the title when he or she has legitimately acquired the ownership of the property but there has been no delivery.

Dominion

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Dominion ★★½ 1994 (R)

Six buddies take off for a weekend hunting trip that turns deadly when a murderous hunter believes they've trespassed on his territory and begins stalking them. 98m/C VHS . Michael (Mike) Papajohn, Brad Johnson, Brion James, Tim Thomerson, Woody Brown, Glenn Morshower, Richard Riehle, Geoffrey Blake; D: Michael Kehoe; W: Woody Brown, Michael Kehoe.

dominion

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dominion lordship, sway XV; domains of a feudal lord or sovereign (hist., designation of some countries of the British Commonwealth) XVI. — OF. — medL. dominiō, -ōn-, f. dominium, f. dominus master, lord (see DOM).

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