It is thus distinguished from jus in re which is a complete and absolute dominion over a thing available against all persons.

"Wizards of Unseen University," it said, "have I not given you absolute dominion?"

Islam's captives were reduced to the state of slaves since they were war booty and submitted to the absolute dominion of their Moorish owners.

Instead of being equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the sole and absolute dominion of each.

The Court rejected that contention, noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion."

In one stroke, Torak's disciples overturned millennia of military and bureaucratic rule and returned absolute dominion to the Gro-lims.

In the last of the four wars, however, these two rivals fought for absolute dominion over North America.

The stupidity of going back to bring up the Oldtimers when she could have had absolute dominion over the entire planet as Weyrwoman to Pern's only queen!

In modern times, courts have limited the right of absolute dominion over the subsurface.

It is rare indeed for the woman to seek a more direct means; to possess absolute dominion over men through her own strength.