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ad coelum

ad coelum noun: the principle by which property rights extend vertically upwards and, sometimes, downwards from a property; it is used to describe air rights or no-fly zones, as well as rights to resources under the soil, such as mineral rights, among others.

Noun

ad coelum

  1. The principle by which property rights extend vertically upwards and, sometimes, downwards from a property; it is used to describe air rights or no-fly zones, as well as rights to resources under the soil, such as mineral rights, among others.

Origin of ad coelum

Latin ad (“to”) + coelum (“the heavens”) Abbreviated from the Latin Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (et ad inferos) meaning "for whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven (and down to Hell)." The phrase originally did not include et ad inferos; see Wikipedia article for detailed history.

Questions about ad coelum

What does ad coelum mean?
Ad coelum means the principle by which property rights extend vertically upwards and, sometimes, downwards from a property; it is used to describe air rights or no-fly zones, as well as rights to resources under the soil, such as mineral rights, among others.
What part of speech is ad coelum?
Ad coelum is a noun.

Words near ad coelum in the dictionary

  1. ad banners
  2. ad blindness
  3. ad break
  4. ad breaks
  5. ad captandum
  6. ad coelum
  7. Ad Dammam
  8. ad damnum
  9. ad eundem
  10. ad feminam
  11. ad feminams

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