American Reception of the English Common Law; unwritten law; customary law; limit of legal memory; statutory law; stare decisis; foundation of law in Roman constructs.

Status of owner - proprietor or domini; right of exclusive control or use - domain or dominion; "private property."

Rights of a Roman citizen; "pater familias" and "patria potestas" (patriarchial dominion over persons and things); mode of contract; status; Imperium ("police powers"); Law of Rome - public and private; non-citizen Law of Nations; Law of Obligations (delict or torts.)

Directum dominium; nudum dominium; usufructory dominium; dominium utile; "possessio."

The denizen or non-citizen; inability to contract or convey; praetor peregrimus; Law of Nature or Natural Law.

Latin city-states; "Latin Rights"; non-Italian conquered territorial status; "dediticii- capitulants with no legal rights; Senatorial territories under governors; "imperial provinces" under Emperor's rule (included England); status of imperial lands as "ager publicus" held by possessors under revocable grant; Emperor as "pater familias" to territories; state monopolies and leases; latifundia; "coloni" (tenants); military "agri-decumates"; "coloniae" (colony); "free cities"; bureaucracy.

Res mancipi; res nec mancipi; mancipium; vindicatio; exceptio; "immovables" and "movables"; realty and personalty; delivery and "tradition"; incorporeal legal title; title.

"Vice of Title"; equitable and legal title; adverse possession or prescription; actio Publiciana; Quiritarian and Bonitarian rights; Roman Civil Law; Roman Equity; ripening of usucapion; jus duplicatum.

Adverse equitable possession; prescription; ejection; Possessory Interdicts; Real Action in Law; acquiring ownership of the ager publicus; equitable possessory ownership; tenure; emphyteusis; "legal fiction" that possession was inherent in titled ownership; "Maxims"; feudalism; sovereign title and dominion; conditional fee title (feud or fief); subinfeudation; statute of limitations; acts establishing equitable possession; open and notorious use.

Res nullius; first possessor by right of occupancy; specific acts manifesting appropriation; mode of acquisition; Blackstone; Locke; "state of nature"; proprietary rights; private ownership through mixture of labor with object; protection of property as a fundamental purpose of government.

THE  ENGLISH "CROWN" AND THE PREROGATIVE

Definition - adjective and noun

Prerogatives; international rights vested in the sovereign; conquest and discovery; Crown ownership of land and resources; royal privileges; public law and public trust; franchise.

Sovereign title; unappropriated, vacant or wastelands - public domain; "The sea and its arms"; navigable tidal rivers or "Royal Rivers"; private non-navigable rivers.

Admiralty droits; royalties and mines; reservation of resources.

"Res communes - things common to all"; ancient negative community; air, sea, shore, tidal navigable rivers; "wild" things - free flowing water; wild animals (ferae naturae).

Wild animals; transitory ownership in "ferae naturae - propter privilegium"; the right of hunting and fishery as an aspect of land ownership ("ratione soli";) acquiring property or "take" of an individual animal by occupancy and possession.

Creation of the "Royal Forest" on the basis of sovereign dominion; regulation as an aspect of the severability of hunting rights for separate grant; "foris" - exclusion from the common law; Magna Carta; the Forest Charter and forest law.

"Trusts"; alienability and purpresture; "Commons"; Common piscary - fishery and fishing rights; several, free and common fishery; relationship of fishery to land ownership; Common right of free navigation;

Franchise - "public" privilege vs. a monopoly; chartered municipalities; chartered joint-stock trade corporations; the colony of Virginia as a franchise venture; private/public law - the right to regulate property as relates to a franchise and the right to regulate private property.