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Solum

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Soil; ground.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In the civil law. The soil; ground.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

The lowest part: land, soil..ffidiflcatum solo, solo eedit. What is built upon the land, goes with the land: a building follows the ownership of the land. See Fixture. Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad eoelum et ad inferos. Of whom is the land, of him is it also to the sky and to the deepest depths: he who owns the land owns all above and all below the surface. Upward no man may erect a building to overliang another's land; and downward, whatever is in a direct line belongs to the owner of the surface.' The owner of land has the right to use that which is beneath the soU, whether rock or water, where there is no intent to injure the adjoining owner.' See Mine; Tree. Solo cedit quod solo implantatur. With the land goes whatever is on the land planted. See Land; Terra.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. The ground, soil.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

The land; the soil. Solo cedit quod solo implantatur. To the land belongs what is planted. Solo cedit quod solo incedificatur. To the land belongs what is built into the land. See Quicquid plantatur, &c. faction in any manner, as well as by actual payment in money.