ACCESSION - Black's Law Dictionary

What is ACCESSION? Definition of ACCESSION in Black's Law Dictionary

Coming into possession of a right or office; increase; augmentation; addition.

The right to all which one's own property produces, whether that property be movable or immovable; and the right to that which is united to it by accession, either naturally or artificially. 2 Kent, 360; 2 Bl.Comm. 404; Franklin Service Stations v. Sterling Motor Truck Co. of N. E., 50 R. I. 336, 147 A. 754, 755.

Riparian owners' right to abandoned river beds and rights of alluvion by accretion and reliction, Manry v. Robison, 122 Tex. 213, 56 S.W.2d 438, 443, 444.

A principle derived from the civil law, by which the owner of property becomes entitled to all which it produces, and to all that is added or united to it, either naturally or artificially, (that is, by the labor or skill of another.) even where such addition extends to a change of form or materials; and by which, on the other hand, the possessor of property becomes entitled to it, as against the original owner, where the addition made to it by his skill and labor is of greater value than the property itself, or where the change effected in its form is so great as to render it impossible to restore it to its original shape. Twin City Motor Co. v. Rouzer Motor Co., 197 N.C. 371, 148

S.E. 461, 463. In Blackwood Tire & Vulcanizing Co. v. Auto Storage Co., 133 Tenn. 515, 182 S. W. 576, L.R.A.1916E, 254, Ann.Cas.1917C, 1168, this principle was applied in favor of the conditional seller who, on nonpayment, retook the automobile sold, together with tire casings which the buyer had fitted thereto. Valley Chevrolet Co. v. 0. S. Stapley Co., 50 Ariz. 417, 72 P.2d 945.

International Law

The absolute or conditional acceptance by one or several states of a treaty already concluded between other sovereignties. Merl. Rêpert. It may be of two kinds: First, the formal entrance of a third state into a treaty so that such state becomes a party to it; and this can only be with the consent of the original parties. Second, a state may accede to a treaty between other states solely for the purpose of guarantee, in which case, though a party, it is affected by the treaty only as a guarantor. 1 Oppenheim, Int.L. sec. 532. See Adhesion.

Also, the commencement or inauguration of a sovereign's reign.

 

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