Every person has exclusive dominion over the soil which he absolutely owns; hence such owner has the exclusive right of hunting and fishing on his land, and the waters covering it.

Explanation

Absolute ownership carries absolute dominion over every use of the land — including every creature and watercourse upon it.

Where this applies

• The state says I need a license to hunt on my own land.
• A government agency is restricting fishing in the pond on my own property.

See also

• 5.1.1 The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual.
• 5.2.2 Whose is the soil, his it is even to the sky above and to the depths below.