Note 146 — THE ORIGIN OF PROPERTY IN LAND
Margaret Ashley translation
Formulæ, ed. Rozière, No. 172, ed. Zeumer, p. 276: “Dulcissimis nepotibus meis ... dono rem meam, id est, mansos tantos cum ædificiis, una cum terris, silvis, campis, pratis, pascuis, communiis, mancipiis ibidem commanentibus, et quidquid in ipso loco mea est possessio vel dominatio.” The word dominatio, which is found more than 500 times in charters, has never any other sense than private property, dominium.