Domain; dominical; held in one’s own right, and not of a superior; not allotted to tenants.
In the language of pleading, own; proper ; original. Thus, son assault demesne, his own assault, his assault originally or in the first place. Ancient demesne, see ANCIENT. Demesne as of fee. A man is said to be seised in his demesne as of fee of a corporeal inheritance, because he has a property, dominicum or demesne, in the thing itself. But when he has no dominion in the thing itself, as in the case of an incorporeal hereditament, he is said to be seised as of fee, and not in his demesne as of fee. 2 Bl. Comm. 106; Littleton.