[OldNavyVet]

Owning land carries with it the ownership of space above and below that land.

As I see it, and without explicit written restrictions ... Oil rights, mineral rights and space above land (clouds, delivered contents. etc) belong to the landowner.

How this turns out should be interesting.

[muawiyah]

So when the previous owner sold you "the surface rights", and not "the water rights" and not "the mineral rights" and not "other rights that may be discovered", what was it you bought?

Sometimes when you buy land you don't really get the "land" ~ you get a right to exercise surface rights.

It can be very complicated which is why there are lawyers. Even if there were no crime we'd have lawyers fighting over land for us.