Improvement

This term is of doubtful meaning. It would seem to apply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to ‘every amelioration of every description of property, whether real or personal; it is generally explained by other words. Where, by the terms of a lease the covenant was to leave at the end of the term a water-mill with all the fixtures, fas. tenings, and tmprovements, during the demise fixed, fastened, or set up on or upon the premises, in good plight and condition, it was held to include a pair of new mill-stones set up by the lessee during the term, although the custom of the country in general authorised the tenant to remove them.

9 Bing. 24; 3 Sim. 450; 2 Ves. & Bea. 349. Vide 8 Yeates, 71; Addis. R. 335.