High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos (Latin for whoever owns soil, is theirs all the way to Heaven and to Hell) often appearing in the shorter form Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum, omitting et ad inferos "and to hell", is a principle of property law, stating that property holders have rights not only to the plot of land itself, but also to the air above and (in the broader formulation) the ground below.