Accessio

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.