Crossword-Solution: DOMINIUM 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Every other kind of possession, which might be named imperfect proprietorship, was called “in bonis habere.” It was not till after the time of Cicero that the general name of Dominium was given to all proprietorship.

Not an inch of ground in England was owned save under his authority, as enjoying the supremum dominium.

Talia cum rex aliquis meditator & molitur serio, omnem regnandi curam & animum ilico abjicit, ac proinde imperium in subditos amittit, ut dominus servi pro derelicto habiti dominium.

But the government have over the land, and over all the property upon it, what is called _altum dominium_, or _eminent domain_, which is a power of commanding private proprietors to part with their property for public purposes, with compensation, whenever compensation is possible.

The purpose of Grotius was to claim for every nation, as against the Portuguese, freedom of trade in the Indian Ocean, but the arguments he used appeared to King James and his advisers to challenge the _dominium maris_, which English kings had always claimed in the "narrow seas." The embassy of 1610, therefore, had to deal not merely with the fisheries, but with the whole subject of the maritime relations of the two countries; and a crowd of published pamphlets proves the intense interest that was aroused.