—Compiled by Lkite Akinyuwa Dorathy
QUIC QUID SOLO SOLO PLANTATUR: meaning , "Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil"
This is a popular real estate Latin phrase that basically relates to fixtures and developments on land which can be said to belong to the owner of the land. Consequently, the owners of the land owns anything that is attached on it.
Thus, any improvement made by a tenant or any person on the land other than the owner, that gets converted to real property, by operation of the maxim becomes part of owner's property. The improvement cannot be reclaimed by the person at the end of the lease.
The purpose of the principle is to ensure that a purchaser of land does not acquire title or ownership of something which is not intended to pass with the land. It also ensures that the correct title does pass to a purchaser in case a previous owner attempts to assert that a fixture was a chattel and therefore belonged to them.
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