Ratione soli

"[3] In ancient Roman law, landowners could only take legal possession of animals by capturing and maintaining physical control over them.

[5] Over time, this developed into a system of laws where the right to hunt was restricted to nobles and the landowning elite.

India, for example, "views groundwater as chattel connected to the land, and allows the landowner ownership rights based on the ad coelum principle.

"[8] However, some commentators note that some American jurisdictions have rejected the application of ratione soli to the ownership of wild animals because "it smacks of the hunting rights of the English landowning families who used it to make meatless meals for and poachers out of England's yeoman.

"[9] For example, the Colorado Supreme Court stated in 1981 that "a landowner's property ratione soli is subject to 'lawful regulation.