Accreditulare

or ACCREDULITARE (Lat.) To purge one's self of an offense by oath. Whishaw; Blount. ACCRESCERE (Lat. to be added to). The term is used is speaking of Islands which are formed in rivers by deposit Calv. Lex.; 3 Kent, Comm. 428. In Scotch Law. To pass to any one. Bell, Diet. It is used in a related sense in the common-law phrase jus accrescendi, the right of survivorship. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 426. sex annos, that the action did not accrue ■within six years. 3 Chit. PI. 914. ACCRETION (Lat. accrescere, to grow to)._ _ The increase of real estate by the addition of portions of soil, by gradual deposition through the operation of natural causes, to that already in possession of the owner. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 451. It is immaterial whether the stream be navigable or not, or whether artificial causes contribute. 64 111. 56. "Alluvion" comprises both soil and other things, such as seaweed, etc. Tiedeman, Real Prop. § 686; 2 Johns. (N. Y.) 313. The term "alluvion" is applied to the deposit itself, while "accretion" rather denotes the act. Sometimes, however, alluvion is used to denote the act of increase also, and accretion as a generic term including, also, reliction and avulsion (q. v.)