Explore: Accretion (law)

An accretion disk is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. The central

reflecting Roman property law: occupation, accretion, cession, conquest and prescription. The law of the sea is the area of international law concerning the principles

± 0.05 billion years. This age represents the final stages of Earth's accretion and planetary differentiation. Age estimates are based on evidence from

In real property law, avulsion refers to a sudden loss of land, which results from the action of water. It differs from accretion, which describes a gradual

such as visible light. Matter falling toward a black hole can form an accretion disk of infalling plasma, heated by friction and emitting light. In extreme

require mergers and acquisitions to comply with antitrust or competition law. In the United States, for example, the Clayton Act outlaws any merger or

takes effect in favour of the existing members of the association as an accretion to the funds which are the subject-matter of the contract". In other words

Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories resulting in the displacement of Indigenous

hole at its center, corresponding to the radio source Sagittarius A*. Accretion of interstellar gas onto supermassive black holes is the process responsible

to use land that is added to the extent of the adjoining property by accretion. Most western states, naturally drier, generally follow the prior appropriation