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Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)  , in law, a method of acquiring property adopted from Roman law, by which, in things that have a close connexion with or dependence on one another, the property of the principal draws after it the property of the accessory, according to the principle, accessio cedet principali . Accession may take place either in a natural way, such as the growth of fruit or the pregnancy of animals, or in an artificial way . The various methods may be classified as (I) land to land by accretion or alluvion; (2) moveables to land (see FIXTURES); (3) moveables to moveables; (4) moveables added to by the art or industry of man; this may be by specification, as when wine is made out of grapes, or by confusion, or commixture, which is the mixing together of liquids or solids, respectively . In the case of industrial accession ownership is determined according as the natural or manufactured substance is of the more importance, and, in general, compensation is pay-able to the person who has been dispossessed of his property . In a historical or constitutional sense, the term " accession " is applied to the coming to the throne of a dynasty or line of sovereigns or of a single sovereign . " Accession " sometimes likewise signifies consent or acquiescence .