Dominium means "dominion; control; ownership". It 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 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 or fee simple. * Dominium eminens – The right of emine