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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another as a better man a better physician a better house a better air...
Betterment
Betterment, increasing the value of property. Where the increase is due to the execution of public improvements, some modern Acts provide that the neighbouring owners should bear a special share of the expense. The principle seems to have been applied, under the term 'melioration,' by 19 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 26, when London was being re-built after the Great Fire. For an instance of what might now be considered betterment, see Re South Eastern Railway & L.C.C.'s Contract, (1915) 2 Ch 252.The principle has been adopted by the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), s. 21, which, upon or apart from any question of compensation, allows local authorities to claim for betterment. See Re Webster, 51 TLR 201. See also (English) Public Health Act, 1925, s. 31, and (English) Local Government Act, 1929, Sched. I., Part I., and IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS....
Better Equity
Better Equity. Where as between rival claimants in a court of equity the court holds that one of them, either on the ground of notice or of priority in time or for some other sufficient reason, is entitled to priority over the other, such claimant is said to have the 'better equity.'...
bettering
changing for the better antonym of worsening...
Betterment
A making better amendment improvement...
Betterness
The quality of being better or superior superiority...
Betterment levy or additional FAR charges
Betterment levy or additional FAR charges, means the levy payable on the additional FAR allowed vide notification dated 23-7-1998 and over to FAR allowed vide notification dated 15-5-1995, Delhi Development Authority (Levy/Charges for Residential Plotted Development) Regulation, 2006, Reg. 2(b)....
Melior
Melior, [Latin] Better, the better ('the better thing or chattel'), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 997....
Emend
To purge of faults to make better to correct esp to make corrections in a literary work to alter for the better by textual criticism generally verbal...
Mend
To grow better to advance to a better state to become improved to recover to heal...
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