ADVENTITIOUS, something accruing or befalling a person or thing from without. See ACCESSION, etc.Thus, Adventitious Matter, is such matter as does not properly belong to any body, but is casually joined to it.See ACCRETION, APPUNCTION, etc.
Adventitious, in Civil Law, is applied to such goods as fall to a man, either by mere fortune, or by the liberality of a stranger, or by collateral succession. See GOODS. The word is used in opposition to Profectedious; by which are signified such goods as descend in a direct line, from father to son. See PROFECTEDIOUS.
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