Word: coelum
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...well. Hargis was particularly impressive; she is a specialist in pre-Baroque music, and it shows. She captured the Renaissance style perfectly, demonstrating complete control over her voice so that there was no excessive vibrato, yet no shrill tone. Also greatly enjoyable was the tenor dialogue in the Audi coelum (IX), in which Hite sang his responses to Kelley from the balcony...
...constitution does not allow reasons of state to influence our judgement. God forbid it should! We must not regard political consequences, however formidable they might be; if rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say, Justitia fiat, ruat coelum-Let justice be done, though the heavens fall...
...defining their sovereignty, nations originally adopted the principle of iusque ad coelum, or roughly "the sky's the limit." But what is the sky? The notion that a nation's control extends unlimited in a huge space cone above its territory is not only gigantic pride, it is also impractical...
...ancient maxim, attributed to Accursius (1182-1260) and much quoted by legalists, reads: Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil owns above it to the sky). Until recently this principle of property ownership was generally accepted, and air rights above property still sell for vast sums.* But the advent of air transport has vastly complicated Accursius' ancient tenet. When aircraft pass over a man's land or over foreign territory, is it trespass...
...reign of Edward I (1239-1307), disputes involving the ownership of birds in trees or the right to build a structure which jutted over the edge of a neighbor's land, were settled by the maxim: Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil, owns above...