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Quotation dates: 1773, 1838
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INDUSTRIAL, adj. Sc. Law: brought about by the industry of man, esp. in combs. industrial accession, the additional value acquired by property as a result of human industry; industrial crops, crops sown by man, not growing wild (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 42).Sc. 1773 Erskine Institute ii. i. § 15:
The ways of acquiring property by industrial or artificial accession are various.Sc. 1838 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 7:
Artificial accession is that addition which is the result of human industry, otherwise called industrial accession; e.g. trees planted, or a house built on the property of another, which belong to the proprietor of the ground, and not to the planter or builder.
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