Meliorations
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.