Accretion
Accretion
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English Legal System: Accretion
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Accretion:
The process by which new land formations are legally assimilated to old by a change in the flow of a water channel. In contrast to *avulsion, this process involves a very slow, near imperceptible, natural action of water and other elements. It would include, for example, the natural diversion of a boundary river leaving an island, sandbank, or dry land where it previously flowed, the formation of islands at a river mouth, and additions to a delta by the deposit of sand and soil upon the shoreline. Accretion will allow the beneficiary state to legitimately claim title to the new land so created.
See also thalweg, rule of the.
Concept of Accretion in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Accretion: The gradual addition to the shore or bank of a waterway. The land generally becomes the property of the owner of the shore or bank, except where statutes specify otherwise.
Concept of Accretion in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Accretion: The gradual addition to the shore or bank of a waterway. The land generally becomes the property of the owner of the shore or bank, except where statutes specify otherwise.
Meaning of Accretion
In this law dictionary, the legal term accretion is a kind of the Civil law, Scots law class.
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See Also
Alluvion; Avulsion
Navigable Waters Waters
Water Courses
Trusts
Civil law
Scots law