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]