[German version]

Originally signified the domestic power of the  pater familias (Ulp. Dig. 50,16,195,2: in domo dominium). From the beginning of the Imperial period dominium occurs in the sense of property (Labeo Dig. 18,1,80,3; Sen. Benef. 7,5,1; 7,6,3). In the early period, the Roman conception of property is uniform, being understood at first solely as dominium ex iure Quiritium: property rights accessible to Roman citizens and at the limit to peregrini with  commercium . Later on, in honorary law established by the  praetor (in bonis habere,  bona ), allowed claims giving abso…