Accrescere

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.