Law. Possession (of real estate) as one's own. Chiefly in the phrase to hold in demesne (tenere in dominico), i.e. in one's own hands as possessor by…
= demesne, n. 1. Also attributive in domain lands. Obsolete. rare.
Land held directly from the Crown. Cf. in capite, adv.
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