ACCESSION

Accession

Accession has different definitions depending upon its application. In property law, it is a mode of acquiring property that involves the addition of value to property through labor or the addition of new materials. For example, a person who owns a property on a river delta also takes ownership of any additional land that builds up along the riverbank due to natural deposits or man made deposits.

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accession

Noun

  1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
  2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
  3. A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
  4. The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
  5. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
  6. The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
  7. Agreement.
  8. Access; admittance.

Verb

  1. To make a record of (additions to a collection).


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