@article{MAKHILLTSS20083221872, title = {Homesteading, Ad Coelum, Owning Views and Forestalling}, journal = {The Social Sciences}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, pages = {96-103}, year = {2008}, issn = {1818-5800}, doi = {sscience.2008.96.103}, url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1818-5800&doi=sscience.2008.96.103}, author = {Walter Block}, keywords = {Homesteading,ad coelum,forestalling,property rights,views,slant drilling}, abstract = {Homesteading, not the ad coelum doctrine, is compatible with libertarianism. In the former case, one mixes his labor with unowned land and a means of establishing private property rights in it and what is owned is limited to just that which has undergone this process. In the latter case, homesteading a square mile of land enables the owner of it to extend his property rights in a pyramid shaped form from his holdings on the surface down into the core of the earth and up into the heavens, with no limit.} }