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If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the centre of the earth???
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A coelo usque ad centrum - from the sky to the centre of the earth - is certainly something which is explicit in Scottish land law, but not in England and Wales (can�t find a definitive answer). Whilst this in theory this means that you would own everything under the footprint, including the subsoil, anything further down is likely to be the subject of much planning and land law legal debate. Also, to have anything worthwhile so deep down � you would have to own a very large patch of surface land indeed!
In fact, my trigonometry is a little rusty to say the least, but if we assume that the outer surface of the inner core is 5,800 kilometres deep, then you would need to own the freehold of circa 300million km� which is about two-thirds of the current land mass on the planet to be able to build a decent sized house � unless you had many storeys of course! Given the climate and temperate nature of the inner core though, it wouldn�t be a nice place to dwell.
This is just for fun, and no doubt a true mathematician will dispute and correct me.
This is just for fun, and no doubt a true mathematician will dispute and correct me.
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