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more pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion...
Better
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....
Looking
Having a certain look or appearance often compounded with adjectives as good looking grand looking etc...
Look-at-able
Look-at-able, something which is capable of being looked at. 'This court has come to the conclusion that whatever is logically relevant is legally look-at-able' [Union of India v. Sankalchand, AIR 1977 SC 2328 (2373), para 80]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
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.'...
Good looking
Handsome fine looking as a good looking man...
bettering
changing for the better antonym of worsening...
Betterment
A making better amendment improvement...
Betterness
The quality of being better or superior superiority...
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