Betterments
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
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.