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Meliorations

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Melior, [Latin] Better, the better ('the better thing or chattel'), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 997.

One who meliorates

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The act or operation of meliorating or the state of being meliorated improvement

The state or quality of being better melioration

To make better to improve to ameliorate to soften to make more tolerable

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement

Melior est conditio possidentis, et rei quam actoris. 4 Inst. 180.-The condition of the possessor is the better, and

Melior est justitia vere pr'veniens quam severe puniens. 3 Inst. Epil.-(Justice truly preventing is better than severely punishing.)

Melior est conditio possidentis ubi neuter jus habet. Jenk. Cent. 118.-(The condition of the possessor is the better where

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