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...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...
...Cuius animorum illuminationis amatorem te, novum Praesidem noistrum, salutamus, te, virum dignum ad haec officia invitamus spe magna omnes oppleti. Et nobiscum hodie virl, ab omni parte orbis terrarum, clarissime, virum clarissimum Lowell, salutant, luminis sapientiae studiorum...