Accessio

What does Accessio mean in American Law?

The definition of Accessio in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

In Roman law, a method of acquiring property, which includes what would be covered by both accession and accretion in Anglo-American law.

Concept of “Accessio”

Traditional meaning of accessio in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Accession; a mode of acquiring property by natural increase, or addition to what one already possesses; as land, by deposit of a river; or houses, when built on one’s own land; or the young of animals; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 404.; Robinson’s Elementary Law Rev. ed.; § 153.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Accessio”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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Meaning of Accessio

In this law dictionary, the legal term accessio is a kind of the Roman law class.

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