In the civil law. The owner of a vessel. Dig. 39, 4, 11, 2.
Dominus non maritabit pupiUum nisi semel. Co. Litt. 9. A lord cannot give a ward in marriage but once.
Dominus rax nullum habere potest par em, multo minus superiorem. The king cannot have an equal, much less a superior. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 115.