1. A growing to; an increase by natural growth; applied to the increase of organic bodies by the accession of parts.
3. In the civil law, the
adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; as, when a
legacy is left to two persons, and one of them dies before the
testator, the
legacy devolves to the
survivor by right of accretion
1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an
extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
3.
Concretion;
coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
5. The
adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual
recession of the water from the usual
watermark.
6. Gain to an heir or
legatee, failure of a
coheir to the same succession, or a co-
legatee of the same thing, to take his share.
