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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accession
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A general right of accession would have created a major inroad into the continuing bilateralism of even multilateral treaties.
▪ Aldfrith appears to have been very much on the periphery of Northumbrian dynastic life before his accession.
▪ But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages.
▪ Edward II's accession later that year accelerated his rise.
▪ He adds that the line between accession and adhesion is poorly defined.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accession

Accession \Ac*ces"sion\, n. [L. accessio, fr. accedere: cf. F. accession. See Accede.]

  1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

  2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.

    The only accession which the Roman empire received was the province of Britain.
    --Gibbon.

  3. (Law)

    1. A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

    2. The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
      --Kent.

  4. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

  5. (Med.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

    Syn: Increase; addition; augmentation; enlargement.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accession

"act of coming to a position," especially of a throne, 1640s, from Latin accessionem (nominative accessio) "a going to, joining, increase," noun of action from past participle stem of accedere "approach, enter upon" (see accede).

Wiktionary
accession

n. 1 A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's '''accession''' to a confederacy. 2 Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without. 3 (context legal English) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). 4 (context legal English) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers. 5 The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity. 6 (context medicine English) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm. 7 Agreement. 8 Access; admittance. vb. (context transitive English) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

WordNet
accession
  1. n. a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group); "the art collectin grew through accession"

  2. (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement

  3. something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff" [syn: addition]

  4. agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly); "accession to such demands would set a dangerous precedent"; "assenting to the Congressional determination" [syn: assenting]

  5. the right to enter [syn: entree, access, admittance]

  6. the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne); "Elizabeth's accession in 1558" [syn: rise to power]

  7. v. make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

Wikipedia
Accession (property law)

Accession has different definitions depending upon its application.

In property law, it is a mode of acquiring property that involves the addition of value to property through labor or the addition of new materials. For example, a person who owns a property on a river delta also takes ownership of any additional land that builds up along the riverbank due to natural deposits or man made deposits.

In commercial law, accession includes goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. In English common law, the added value belonged to the original property's owner. For example, if the buyer of a car has parts added or replaced, then the buyer fails to make scheduled payments and the car is repossessed, the buyer has no right to the new parts because they have become a part of the whole car.

In modern common law, if the property owner allows the accession through bad faith, the adder of value is entitled to damages or title to the property. If the individual who adds value to the owner's chattel (personal property) is a trespasser or does so in bad faith, the owner retains title and the trespasser cannot recover labor or materials. The owner of the chattel may seek conversion damages for the value of the original materials plus any consequential damages. Alternatively, the owner may seek replevin (return of the chattel). However, the owner may be limited to damages if the property has changed its nature by accession. For example, if a finder discovers a gemstone and in good faith believes it to be abandoned and then cuts it and integrates it into a work of art, the true owner may be limited to recovery of damages for the value of the gemstone, but not of the final art piece by way of replevin. The remedies and application of the law vary by legal jurisdiction.

Accession (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

"Accession" is the 89th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 17th episode of the fourth season.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located near a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. In the episode, Captain Sisko ( Avery Brooks) is given a much-appreciated opportunity to relinquish the title of Emissary, but soon comes to regret it.

Accession

Accession refers to the general idea of joining or adding to. It may also refer to:

  • Accession (property law)
  • Accession, the act of joining a treaty by a party that did not take part in its negotiations, as defined by article 15 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
    • Ratification
    • EU Accession
  • Accession to the throne; not to be confused with the later ceremony of Coronation
    • Accession Day, the day a monarch succeeds to the throne, and the anniversary thereof
  • Accession to elected office; inauguration
  • Accession number (disambiguation)
    • Accession number (library science), a catalogue number assigned to an object when it becomes part of a library or museum collection
    • Accession number (bioinformatics), a unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database
  • Accession (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
  • Accession Records, a record label created by Adrian Hates

Usage examples of "accession".

Such was the state of the Roman frontiers, and such the maxims of Imperial policy, from the death of Augustus to the accession of Trajan.

The latter of those mighty streams, which rises at the distance of only thirty miles from the former, flows above thirteen hundred miles, for the most part to the south-east, collects the tribute of sixty navigable rivers, and is, at length, through six mouths, received into the Euxine, which appears scarcely equal to such an accession of waters.

Above two hundred and fifty years after the death of Trajan, the senate, in pouring out the customary acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, wished that he might surpass the felicity of Augustus, and the virtue of Trajan.

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Claudius, was enacted as a legal claim, on the accession of every new emperor.

A short time after his accession, he conferred on his son Diadumenianus, at the age of only ten years, the Imperial title, and the popular name of Antoninus.

Since the accession of Commodus, the Roman world had experienced, during the term of forty years, the successive and various vices of four tyrants.

When the rights of nature and poverty were thus secured, it seemed reasonable, that a stranger, or a distant relation, who acquired an unexpected accession of fortune, should cheerfully resign a twentieth part of it, for the benefit of the state.

On the accession of Alexander he returned to court, and was placed by that prince in a station useful to the service, and honorable to himself.

On the accession of Claudius, an old woman threw herself at his feet, and complained that a general of the late emperor had obtained an arbitrary grant of her patrimony.

Rome, in thirty books, from the fall of Nero to the accession of Nerva.

Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.

His fortunate son, from the first moment of his accession, declaring himself the protector of the church, at length deserved the appellation of the first emperor who publicly professed and established the Christian religion.

Mount Ida, overlooked the mouth of the Hellespont, which scarcely received an accession of waters from the tribute of those immortal rivulets, the Simois and Scamander.

Although Sapor was in the thirtieth year of his long reign, he was still in the vigor of youth, as the date of his accession, by a very strange fatality, had preceded that of his birth.