Melioration - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: meliorationMelioration
The act or operation of meliorating or the state of being meliorated improvement...
Meliorations
Meliorations, 1. Improvements other than repairs on an estate. 2. Lasting Improvements Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 997.Meliorations, improvements, Scots term. And see BETTERMENT....
Meliorator
One who meliorates...
Meliority
The state or quality of being better melioration...
Cum par delictum est duorum semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa
Cum par delictum est duorum semper oneratur petitor et melior habetur possessoris causa [Lat.], When both parties are equally in fault the plaintiff must always fail and the cause of him in possession be preferred....
In aequali jure melior est conditio possidentis
In aequali jure melior est conditio possidentis [Lat.], in equal rights the condition of the possessor is the better; or, where the rights of the parties are equal, the claim of the actual possessor shall prevail.Plowd. 296.--(Where the rights are equal, the condition of the possessor is the better.) 'Hence it is a familiar rule, that in ejectment, the party controverting my title must recover by his own strength and not by my weakness'.Broom's Leg. Max. and see IN PARI DELICTO, etc....
Melior
Melior, [Latin] Better, the better ('the better thing or chattel'), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 997....
Melior est conditio defendentis
Melior est conditio defendentis.-(The condition of the party in possession is the better one, i.e., where the right of the parties is equal.) See Broom's Leg. Max....
Melior est conditio possidentis ubi neuter jus habet
Melior est conditio possidentis ubi neuter jus habet. Jenk. Cent. 118.-(The condition of the possessor is the better where neither of the two has a right.) See POSSESSION IS NINE POINTS OF THE LAW...
Melior est conditio possidentis, et rei quam actoris
Melior est conditio possidentis, et rei quam actoris. 4 Inst. 180.-The condition of the possessor is the better, and the condition of the defendant than that of the plaintiff....
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