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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.

In Civil 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. The right of the owner of a thing to use it or dispose of it at his pleasure. See Domain; 1 White's New Coll. 85; Jacob's Intr. 39.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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"The committee further recommends that the MoU and the lease agreement be revisited to become instruments for peaceful co-existence between the investor and the community."After analysing financial records presented to the committee by Dominion Farms manager Philip Abbir, the team concluded that, "It is clear that Dominion is not up to date with payments for the land leased to them as per the MoU.

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2018), where we held that the addition of a pollutant into navigable waters via groundwater can violate 1311(a) if the plaintiff can show "a direct hydrological connection between [the] ground water and navigable waters." In this case, the district court found as fact that the arsenic from the coal ash was seeping "directly into the groundwater and, from there, directly into the surface water." As Dominion does not challenge the district court's factual findings on appeal, we apply Upstate Forever and thus reject Dominion's argument, affirming the district court on this point.

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