***SPAM*** NP: Ad Coelum

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Hey y’all,



I’m working on an essay right now that deals a little with questions of
property law, specifically this ad coelum doctrine (idea that land
ownership extends infinitely upward and downward), set against the larger
notion of the human’s relationship to the sky, the politics of public space
on an airplane, some other things…


If any of you have any particularly interesting/relevant information or
thoughts to send my way, I’d be interested. Especially things that might
shed some light on the extent to which this was actually a new idea
whenever it first gets supposedly uttered (Wikipedia says some people
credit a 13th century Roman scholar named Accursus), the extent to which it
represents an evolution in a living person’s public understanding of
property ownership/rights at the time, the details around its becoming
understood embraced versus becoming officially codified in rule of law,
maybe even the evolution of how a human thinks about such things like the
sky, the ground, etc... (you might get the sense here I’m trying to get a
sense of the human’s sense of frontiers, the way the human first *sees *a
space and sees it as colonizable/ownable…)



One thing I’m trying to understand is the spirit and political context in
which this first makes its way into the public’s imagination, perhaps maybe
wondering how it might be understood against/in relation to the
Renaissance, what currents of change might run through them both and
into—eventually—modernism, etc.



Is there something kind of populist about this? At least populist relative
to whoever was allowed to own land… Or if not populist then does it
indicate broader humanistic trends? Or is it strictly a legalistic
framework for solving obvious neighbor disputes?



Bonus points if anyone has anything particularly interesting or salient to
do with the mile high club, or aviatory sex in general.



Thanks and lots of love.
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