(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:07:13

Bet"ter*ment (?), n.

1.

A making better; amendment; improvement.

W. Montagu.

2. Law

An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.

[U. S.]

Bouvier.

 

© Webster 1913.

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