... accedes to what. It will become clear that the short answer is 'it depends on the circumstances of the individual case', so the task will be to identify the considerations that weigh in favour of an accession being found on any given set of facts. It must also be noticed that although we began with the example of a jug, the relevant principles apply equally to the accession of chattels to land. This is often called 'annexation' but the rules are the same. Many of the leading decisions in this area involve chattels and land, and as far as the question of 'when an accession happens' is concerned, there is no difference, but it is obvious that our consideration of 'what accedes to what' will not be aided by cases that turn on whether a particular chattel has acceded to a particular parcel of land. In fact, the leading early case on ...

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