Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

dominium utile

n. [Law Latin] Civil law. Equitable ownership; a beneficial right to use property; the right of a tenant to use the soil and its profits. "The special characteristic of Feudal land was that ownership in it was split into two kinds, the dominium directum of the superior (lord) and the dominium utile of the vassal. The feudists correctly insisted that this was not a form of joint ownership,