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Betterments

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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-