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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

Improvements of an estate, other than mere repairs; betterments.

1 Bell, Comm. 73.

Occasionally used in English and American law In the sense of valuable and lasting improvements or betterments.

See Green V. Biddle, 8 Wheat. 84, 5 In Ed. 547.