Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Accession
The act of acceding or agreeing <the family's accession to the kidnapper's demands>. 2. A coming into possession of a right or office <as promised, the state's budget was balanced within two years after the governor's accession>. 3. Int'l law. The process by which a nation becomes a party to a treaty that has already been agreed on by other nations < Italy became a party to the nuclear-arms treaty by accession>. - Also termed adherence; adhesion. 4. The acquisition of title to personal property by bestowing labor on a raw material to convert it to another thing <the owner's accession to the lumber produced from his land>. - Also termed (in Roman law) accessio. See ADJUNCTION (2). "Accessio is the combination of two chattels belonging to different persons into a single article: as when A's cloth is used to patch B's coat, or a vehicle let on hirepurchase has new accessories fitted to it." R.F.V. Heuston, Salmond on the Law of Torts 113 (17th ed. 1977) 5. A property owner's right to all that is added to the land, naturally or by labor, including land left by floods and improvements made by others <the newly poured concrete driveway became the homeowner's property by accession. Cf. ANNEXATION. 6. An improvement to existing personal property, such as new shafts on golf clubs. "The problem of accessions arises infrequently, judging from reported cases, but an obvious instance of the difficulty arises where a motor vehicle is being financed by a secured party and the debtor in possession of necessity acquires a new engine or new tires for the vehicle .... If the seller of the engine or tires reserved a security interest at the time the goods were installed, the seller should prevail over the vehicle's secured party, with a right to remove the accessions. Conversely, if the sale were on open credit with no security interest reserved, or if the seller acquired a security interest after installation of the goods, then the financer of the vehicle should prevail." Ray D. Henson, Handbook on Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code ยง 4-22, at 93 (2d ad. 1979).ACCESSORYSHIP.
droit d'accession
n. [French "right of accession"] French law. A property right acquired by making, from existing material, something new that cannot be reduced to the original material's shape. a This is the equivalent to the Roman specificatio. See ACCESSION (4).DROIT D'ACCESSION . . . . The civil law rule is that if the thing can be reduced to the former matter it belongs to the owner of the matter, e.g. a statue made of gold; but if it cannot so be reduced it belongs to the person who made it, e.g. a statue mad