Ratione soli is a Latin phrase meaning according to the soil, or by reason of the ownership of the soil. In property law it is a justification for assigning property rights to landowners over resources found on their own land. The source article says that, traditionally, the doctrine gives landowners constructive possession of natural resources on, over and under the surface, and it cites the maxim cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum ad infernos, which ties ownership of land to what lies above and below it. The doctrine is therefore a basis for treating resources located within a parcel as belonging to the owner of that parcel. This entry restates the lead section and does not extend it.
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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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1. Wikipedia: Ratione soli
a justification for assigning property rights to landowners over resources found on their own landView the Source Ratione soli (Wikipedia)
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