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Definition of Ameliorations
1. amelioration [n] - See also: amelioration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ameliorations
Literary usage of Ameliorations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lower Canada Reports =: Décisions Des Tribunaux Du Bas-Canada by Simon Lelièvre (1856)
"That from the proof in the cause, the Court below should have ordered an expertise
to ascertain the value of the ameliorations, and the amount of the rents, ..."
2. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"The nature of the various ameliorations is observed elsewhere.4 § 837. ...
See Ameliorations, infra, §§ 838-841. According to rules announced by Denmark, ..."
3. A Digest of All the Reports Published in Lower Canada, to 1863 by Québec (Province), Andrew Robertson (1864)
"That from the proof in this case, the court below should have ordered an expertise
to ascertain the value of the ameliorations and the amount of the rents, ..."
4. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"Though an imperfect representation of the people, even with the great ameliorations
of the reform act of 1832, it is at once the democratic branch, ..."
5. The Law and Custom of Slavery in British India: In a Series of Letters to by William Adam, Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1840)
"Ameliorations of the Law and Practice of Slavery under the British Government in
India. SIR,—The view which I have proposed to give of the law of slavery in ..."
6. Elements of American Jurisprudence by William Callyhan Robinson (1900)
"Of Recent Ameliorations in the Abnormal Status of Aliens. The disabilities which
attend the status of alienage were formerly extensive and severe. ..."
7. History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1859)
"... 18—debate in parliament on the trade and manufactures, 23—general establishment
of savings banks, 25— ameliorations in criminal punishment, ib. ..."
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