Word: solum
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...some--the solum scriptores...
...JOHN SOLUM New York City
...dance (a trifle sobered) there was no entrance. He tried to tell the matron that his daughter had to be home at 12 and he wanted to go in and get her. She didn't fall for it, so he walked down the block yelling "nunc cosmopolitan solum stat...
...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...