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Definition of Betterments
1. betterment [n] - See also: betterment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betterments
Literary usage of Betterments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valuation of Public Service Corporations: Legal and Economic Phases of by Robert Harvey Whitten (1912)
"Right to a rate of return adequate to construct betterments. In certain rate
cases it has been asserted that the public utility should in addition to a fair ..."
2. Corporation Finance: An Exposition of the Principles and Methods Governing by William Henry Lough (1909)
"Two classes of betterments.—All improvements and all expansions of property may
be grouped under the general name "betterments. ..."
3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1901)
"betterments —ESSENTIALS TO RECOVERY. ... the South Carolina betterments act,
Revised Statutes, chapter 64, article 4, it is incumbent on the plaintiff who ..."
4. Unified Accounting Methods for Industrials by Clinton Edgar Woods (1917)
"Plant betterments and Repairs In any factory there are from time to time plant
betterments, that is, betterments made by the company itself. ..."
5. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"betterments on Leased Buildings In the case of betterments made on leased buildings,
provision must be made to write off their entire cost by the time of ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"The successful litigant must pay for betterments made in good faith by the other
... 3°9; betterments should not be estimated, and their value allowed to a ..."
7. Street Railway Accounting: A Manual of Operating Practice for Electric Railways by Irville Augustus May (1917)
"Additions and betterments Ledgers Ledgers showing the regular additions and
betterments accounts should be provided, to be written up each month and ..."
8. A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Containing a Consideration of the ...by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott by Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott (1922)
"Funding indebtedness for additions and betterments —Where indebtedness for
equipment is not refundable.—(b) Any remaining indebtedness of the carrier to the ..."
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