Showing posts with label ad inferos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ad inferos. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Ad coelum ad internos or Ad column ad inferos?

In discussing the restriction on surface right on a parcel of land Paras has this to say on Page 194, Vol. II, 2008 Edition, of the New Civil Code of the Philippines Annotated:


 
 
De Leon on the other hand, on page 126 of the book Comments and Cases on Property, 2006 Edition, states thus:
 


Take note that they are quoting from the same source.

Here's how the Wikipedia words it: Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelom et ad inferos.

It seems both are half-right. Or half-wrong?