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ADJUNCTION

ADJUNCTION. in civil law. Takes place when the thing belonging to one person is attached or united to that which belongs to another, whether this union is caused by inclusion, as if one man's diamond be encased in another's ring;by soldering, as if one's guard be soldered on another's sword; by sewing,as by employing the silk of one to make the coat of another; byconstruction; as by building on another's land; by writing, as when onewrites on another's parchment; or by painting, when one paints a picture onanother's canvas. 2. In these cases, as a general rule, the accessory follows theprincipal; hence these things which are attached to the things of anotherbecome the property of the latter. The only exception which the civiliansmade was in the case of a picture, which although an accession, drew toitself the canvas, on account of the importance which was attached to it.Inst. lib. 2, t. 1, Sec. 34; Dig. lib. 41, t. 1, 1. 9, Sec. 2. SeeAccession, and 2 Bl. Comm. 404; Bro. Ab. Propertie; Com. Dig. Pleader, M.28; Bac. Abr. Trespass, E 2. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 499.

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