Legal Definitions - adjunction

Adjunction refers to the act of adding something to something else. In civil law, it can also refer to the union of personal property owned by different people.

• Adding a new wing to a house is an example of adjunction.
• If you own a car and you add a new stereo system to it, that is also an example of adjunction.
• In civil law, if you own a piece of land and someone else's land floods and the water ends up on your land, that water becomes your property by adjunction.

These examples illustrate how adjunction involves adding something to something else, whether it's a physical addition like a new wing on a house or a legal addition like the acquisition of property through flooding.