DROIT D’ACCESSION

droit d’accession (drwah dak-ses-syawn), n.[French “right of accession”] Civil law. The right

of  the  owner  of  a  thing  to  whatever  is  produced  by  it  or  is  united  with  it,  either  naturally  or

artificially. La. Civ. Code arts. 483, 490, 507. • The equivalent of the Roman specificatio, the right

includes, for example, the right of a landowner to new land deposited on a riverbank and the right

of an orchard owner to the fruit of the trees in the orchard. See ACCESSION(3).

“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  made  of  marble.”  1  John  Bouvier,

Bouvier’s Law Dictionary 941 (8th ed. 1914). [Blacks Law 8th]