Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum et ad inferos

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....t maxim: cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum et ad inferos, meaning that the owner of the soil is presumed to own everything "up to the sky and down to the centre of the earth." It has been criticized, but it is a presumption that remains firmly part of English law "encapsulating, in simple language, a proposition of law which has commanded general acceptance." Above the surface, the develop....