Betterments

Improvements made to an eetate. It signifies such improvements as have been made to the estate which render it better than mere repairs. 11 Me. 482; 23 Me. 110; 24 Me. 192; 18 Ohio, 308; 10 Yerg. (Tenn.) 477; 18 Vt. 538; 17 Vt; 109. The term is also applied to denote the additional value which an estate acquires in consequence of some public im-

Improvements made to an estate. It signifies such improvements as render it better than mere repairs. Maddocks v. Jellison, 11 Me. 482; Davis' Lessee v. Powell, 13 Ohio, 308; M'Kinly v. Holliday, 10 Yerg. (Tenn.) 477; Thompson v. Gilman, 17 Vt. 109. The term is also applied to denote the additional value which an estate acquires in consequence of some public improvement, as laying out or widening a street, etc. The measure of the value of betterments is not their actual cost, but the enhanced value they impart to the land, without reference to the fact that they were not desired by the true owner or could not profitably be used by him; Carolina Cent. R. Co. v. McCaskill, 98 N. C. 526, 4 S. E. 468.

Improvements put upon an estate which enhance its value more than mere repairs. The term is also applied to denote the additional value which an estate acquires in consequence of some publie improvement, as laying out or widening a street, etc.

In American law. Beneficial improvements made upon lands by the occupant or possessor, in building, fencing, draining, &c. Encyclop. Amer. 2 Kent! 9 Com. 334, et seq. This word is a very literal translation of the melioraiiones of the civil law. Cod. 4. 66. 3. 1 Mackeld. Civ. Zawy 358, § 325.