. Maitland, _Domesday Book and Beyond_
(1897); P. Vinogradoff, _Villainage in England_ (1892) and _Growth of
the Manor_; A. Ballard, _The Domesday Boroughs_ (1904) and _The
Domesday Inquest_ (1906), an excellent summary; W. H. Stevenson, "A
contemporary description of the Domesday Survey" in _The English
Historical Review_ (the general index to which should be consulted)
(1907). _The Victoria County History_ contains a translation of the
Domesday text, a map, and an explanatory introduction for each county.
(J. H. R.)

DOMESTIC RELATIONS, a term used to express the legal relations
subsisting between the various units that comprise the family or
domestic group. Those units which go to build up the domestic structure
of modern society are parent, child, husband, wife, master and servant.
The law which deals with the various relations subsisting between them
is made up largely of the law of agency, of contract and of tort. See
HUSBAND AND WIFE; MASTER AND SERVANT; CHILDREN, _Law relating to_;
INFANT.

DOMETT, ALFRED (1811-1887), British colonial statesman and poet, was
born at Camberwell Grove, Surrey, on the 20th of May 1811. He entered St
John's College, Cambridge, but left the university in 1833. He published
one or two volumes of poetry and contributed several poems to
_Blackwood's Magazine_, one of which, "A Christmas Hymn," attracted much
admiring attention. For ten years he lived a life of ease in London,
where he became the intimate friend of Robert Browning, of whose poem
"Waring" he was the subject. An interesting account of the friendship
between the two men appeared in _The Contemporary Review_ for January
1905, by W. H. Griffin. (See also _Robert Browning and Alfred Domett_,
edited by F. G. Kenyon, 1906). In 1842 Domett emigrated to New Zealand
where he filled many important administrative posts, being colonial
secretary for New Munster in 1848, secretary for the colony in 1851, and
prime minister in 1862. He returned to England in 1871, was created
C.M.G. in 1880, and died on the 2nd of November 1887. Among his books of
poetry, _Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream_, is the best known
(1872), and _Flotsam and Jetsam_ (1877) is dedicated to Browning.

DOMFRONT, a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement
in the department of Orne, 43 m. W.N.W. of Alencon by rail. Pop. (1906)
of the town, 2215; of the commune, 4663. The town, which is
picturesquely