Accessio

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In the civil law. Accession; a going or passing of one thing to or with another as its principal addition; an addition or increase; a mode of acquiring property as an accessory thing, as by increase of the principal through natural laws or natural causes, or by the interweaving, mixing or mingling by another of his materials with those of the person who thus acquires the property; a thing joined or, added to another; an incident or appurtenant; the profit, fruit or increase of a thing; an incidental or auxiliary obligation; the party contracting such an obligation, v. Accession; Res aceessoria, eta

In Roman law. <An increase or addition; that which lies next toa thing, and is supplementary and necessary to the principal thing; that which arises or is produced from the principal thing. Calvin. Lex, Furid. One of the modes of acquiring property, being the extension of ownership over that which grows from, or is united to, an article which one already possesses.

L. Increase; accession, q. v. Accessio cedit priucipali. Increase goes with the principal. Any addition belongs to the owner of the principal object. See Accessorium. ACCESSION". Addition, increase; augmentation. See Accessio. Specifically, the right to all that which one's own property produces, whether that property be movable or immovable, and the right to that which is united to it, either i>aturally or artificially. ^ The fruits of the earth, produced naturally or by human industry, the increase of animals, new species of articles made by one person out of the materials of another, and increments to land, are embraced within the definition.' The doctrine of property arising from accession is groimded on the right of occupancy. By the Ropian law, if any corporeal substance received an accession by natural or artificial means, the original owner of the thing, by virtue of his right of possession, was entitled to the thing in its improved state; but if the thing itself became changed into a different species, as by making wine out of another's grapes, it belonged to the new operator, who was only to make satisfaction to the former proprietor for the materials so converted. These doctrines have since been confirmed by the courts." The rule is that the accession goes with the principal thing.' See Accessoriitm: Accessory; Accretion; Incident; Partus. Compare Confusion, Of goods. 1R.S.§§ 6533, 5473. aR. S. §§ 5535, 5467, 5469, 5471. ' s R. s. §§ 5323-34. *I11. Kev. St., Cothran's ed., p,506, cases. On casual connection, see 20 Cent. Law J. 3-6 (1885), cases. » [3 Kent, 360.

/. Accession; a increase, or addition to deposit of a river; or the young of animals.

Lat. [from accedere, to go to or with; to be added to, to belong to.] In the civil law. Accession; a going or passing of one thing to, or with another as its principal; an addition, or increase. That mode of acquiring property by which according to the rule, Res accessoria sequitur rem principalem, (an accessory thing follows the principal thing,) or cedit rei principali (belongs to the principal thing,) the proprietor of the principal thing becomes, ipso jure, proprietor of all that belong to it, [or is added to, or connected with it,] as an accessory thing; whether such addition be by its own increase, as the fruits of the earth, the young of animals; or the operation of natural causes, as the gradual deposit, (alluvio,) made upon land by a stream; or by the voluntary act of another uniting his property with it, (adjunctio;) as by the interweaving of materials, welding of iron, painting on another's tablet, writing on his parchment, building or planting on his soil; or by the mixing together of things dry, (commixtio,) or liquid, (confusio.) Inst. 2. 1. 26 — 38. Bract, fol. 9 a. 10 a. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 279—286, §§ 266—270. See Adjunctio. The mode of acquisition by transforming a thing belonging to another, especially by working up his material into a new species, as grapes into wine, was called specificatio, and was distinguished from accessio, properly so called. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 277, § 265. See Specificatio. The Romans did not use the word accessio to denote the title arising from the addition of one thing to another, but understood by it the thing itself which comes to be joined to another. 1 Mack. Civ. Law, 279, § 266, note (d). Id. 155, § 163.