{"id":15830,"date":"2018-05-10T23:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T23:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15830"},"modified":"2018-05-21T23:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T23:49:48","slug":"betterment-acts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15830","title":{"rendered":"Occupying Claimant (Betterment) Acts – statutes which provide a recovery by an occupying claimant, since dispossessed by the true owner, for improvements made while occupying the premises in the belief that he had good title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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betterment act<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(1819)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A statute requiring a landowner to compensate an occupant who improves the land under a mistaken belief that the occupant is the real owner. \u00a0* \u00a0The compensation usually equals the increase in the land’s value generated by the improvements.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 aka occupying-claimant act<\/span><\/strong><\/em>; occupant-statute<\/span><\/strong><\/em>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> See Occupying Claimant Acts<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Statutes that obligate a landlord to compensate a former tenant for improvements the tenant made to real property, if the tenant acted in the belief that she had title to the property. \u00a0Such statutes are formally referred to as occupying claimant acts.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

Occupying Claimant’s Acts<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Statutes which provide a recovery by an occupying claimant<\/a><\/span><\/span>, since dispossessed by the true owner, for improvements made by him while he was in actual occupancy of the premises in the belief that he had good title. 27 Am J1st Improve\u00a0\u00a7 1<\/span>.<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

improvement (betterment)<\/span><\/a> – an addition to property (usually real estate), whether permanent or not, that increases its value and goes beyond repair or restoration.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>with<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Pronunciations<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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