Section 1: The right of accession in relation to immovable property

If a watercourse, in forming a new branch, cuts across and embraces the field of a riparian owner, and makes an island of it, that owner retains ownership of his field, even though the island has formed in a state-owned watercourse.

If a state-owned watercourse forms a new course by abandoning its old bed, the riparian owners may acquire ownership of this old bed, each in his or her own right, up to a line assumed to be drawn through the middle of the watercourse. The price of the old bed is fixed by experts appointed by the president of the court in the location of the place, at the request…

Pigeons, rabbits, fish, which pass into another dovecote, rabbit warren or body of water referred to in articles L. 431-6 and L. 431-7 of the Environment Code belong to their owner, provided they have not been lured there by fraud or artifice.