Accession refers to the general idea of joining or adding to. It may also refer to:
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Accession (property law)
* Accession, the act of joining a treaty by a party that did not take part in its negotiations; see
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties#Signature, ratification and accession
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Ratification
Ratification is a principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally. Ratification defines the international act in which a state indicates its consent to be bound to a treaty if the parties inten ...
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EU Accession
* Accession to the throne; not to be confused with the later ceremony of
Coronation
A coronation is the act of placement or bestowal of a coronation crown, crown upon a monarch's head. The term also generally refers not only to the physical crowning but to the whole ceremony wherein the act of crowning occurs, along with the ...
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Enthronement
An enthronement is a ceremony of inauguration, involving a person—usually a monarch or religious leader—being formally seated for the first time upon their throne. Enthronements may also feature as part of a larger coronation rite.
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Accession day, when an heir becomes monarch, and its anniversary
* Accession to elected office;
inauguration
In government and politics, inauguration is the process of swearing a person into office and thus making that person the incumbent. Such an inauguration commonly occurs through a formal ceremony or special event, which may also include an inaugu ...
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Accession number (disambiguation)
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Accession number (cultural property), a catalogue number assigned to an object when it becomes part of a library or museum collection
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Accession number (bioinformatics), a unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database
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Accession (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'')
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Accession Records
Accession Records is a German independent record label created by Adrian Hates the frontman of the band Diary Of Dreams in 1995 year. Have a division sub-label, Succession Records, who recorded some bands until 2010.
Early in its existence, onl ...
, a record label created by Adrian Hates
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Instrument of Accession, a legal document introduced in 1935, used in 1947 to enable the rulers of the princely states formerly in British India to join India or Pakistan
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Instrument of Accession (Jammu and Kashmir)
The Jammu and Kashmir Instrument of Accession is a legal document executed by Maharaja Hari Singh, ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, on 26 October 1947.
Parties
By executing an Instrument of Accession under the provisions of ...
, by which that state joined the Dominion of India (1947)
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Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)
Accession Day is a public holiday in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, commemorating 26 October 1947, when Maharaja Hari Singh signed off the Instrument of Accession, in which Jammu and Kashmir joined the Dominion of India. It becam ...
, a public holiday
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