Accrescere

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In civil and old English law. To and become united with, as soil to land by alluvion be added to a person, as by survival; to arise; existence, as a right of action.

In theciviland old English law. To grow to; to pass to, and become united with, as soil to land per ullucvionem. Dig. 41, 1, 380, pr.

To grow to, come by increase, add to: to accrue, attach. See Actio, Non accrevit; Jus, Accrescendi.

Lat. [from ad, to, and crescere, to grow; L. Fr. accresser.] To grow to, to pass, or be added to a person, or thing; to accrue. In Scotch law, literally translated to accresce. 1 Kames' Equity, 247. Jus accrescendi; (q. v.) the right of accretion, or accruer, the right by which a thing passes or accrues from one to another, especially from a deceased person to those who survive him; hence called the right of survivorship. Pars decedentis accrescere debet superstitibus, per jus accrescendi; the portion of the deceased ought to accrue to the survivors by the right of accruer, or survivorship. Bract. fol. 28. See Id. fol. 77 b, 262 b. To accrue; to grow or arise; to begin to have existence. Actio non accrevit infra sex annos; (q. v.) the action did not accrue within six years. 3 Chitt. Pl. 941.