Adjunction

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adjunction \Ad*junc"tion\, n. [L. adjunctio, fr. adjungere: cf.
     F. adjonction, and see {Adjunct}.]
     The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  adjunction
       n : an act of joining or adjoining things [syn: {junction}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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; by
  construction; as by building on another's land; by writing, as when one
  writes on another's parchment; or by painting, when one paints a picture on
  another's canvas.
       2. In these cases, as a general rule, the accessory follows the
  principal; hence these things which are attached to the things of another
  become the property of the latter.  The only exception which the civilians
  made was in the case of a picture, which although an accession, drew to
  itself 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. See
  Accession, and 2 Bl. Comm. 404; Bro. Ab. Propertie; Com. Dig. Pleader, M.
  28; Bac. Abr. Trespass, E 2. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 499.