Improve

To cultivate, as, land. "Improved land " is such as has been reclaimed, is used for purposes of husbandry, and is cultivated as such, — whether the appropriation is for tillage, meadow or pasture. " Improvement.

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Amelioration in the condition of property by the outlay of labor or money. Includes repairs or additions to buildings, the erection of fences, the annexation of fixtures, etc.'' See Eetterment; Estoppel. As used in a will, relative to property, construed according to the Subject-matter. A gift of the improvement of land may constitute a freehold estate, for the devisee's life; of plate, pictures, furniture, it would be the possession and use; of money, securities, •or stocks, it would be the i:ncome.s Bedding oysters is not an "improvement," within the meaning of a statute authorizing riparian owners to make improvements on navigable streams. The mei-e depositing of the oysters in the water implies no essential union or relation between the main land ^nd the soil under the water contiguous; and there- 1 [Pike D. Hanson, 9 N. H. 493 (1838); Smith v. State, •7 Humph. 43 (1846). See also 85 Ind. 15, 286; 43 id. 65; Baldw. 600; 12 Ark. 43; 133 Mass. 399; 81 N. iC. 538; ■a Johns. 117; 5 Vt. 588; 1 Bish. Cr. L. § 558. = 3 Bl. Com. 127, 138; 4 id. 218; Castro v. De Uriarte, 13,F. E. 253 (1882). » Wood V. Graves, 144 Mass. 367-68 (1887), cases. « E. S. § 990; The Blanche Page, 16 Blatoh. 8 (1879). « 1 Mc Master, Hist. Peop. V. S. 98 (1883). « [Clark V. Phelps, 4 Cow. 208 (1825). See also 40 Cal. 83; 8 Allen, 213; 68 Pa. 396. ' See Schenley's Appeal, 70 Pa. 102 (1871); Schmidt t'. Armstrong, 72 id. 356 (1872); French v. Mayor of New York, 16 How. Pr. 823 (1858)^ 33 Iowa, 254; 34 id. 559; 1 Cush. 98; 23 Barb. 260; 78 N. Y. 1, 581; 18 N. J. L. fore does not effect an improvement of the laud implied in something created or constructed, attached to the shore. 1 Internal improvements. Works within the State, by which the public are supposed to be beiiefited; such as the improvement of highways and channels of travel and commerce.2 See Aid, 1, Municipal. Under improvement. Used, occupied, employed, turned to profitable account.' S. An addition of some useful thing to a patentable object. See further Invejntion; Patent, 3; Process, 3.