See also:

• BETTERMENT (i.e. " making better," as opposed to " worsement ")

BETTERMENT (i.e. " making better," as opposed to " worsement ")  , a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TERM

term, used particularly in connexion with the increased value given to real See also:

• PROPERTY

property by causes for which a See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant or the public, but not the owner, is responsible; it is thus of the nature of unearned increment." When, for instance, some public improvement results in raising the value of a piece of private See also:

• LAND

land, and the owner is thereby " bettered " through no merit of his own, he gains by the See also:

• BETTERMENT (i.e. " making better," as opposed to " worsement ")

betterment, and many economists and politicians have sought to arrange, by See also:

• TAXATION
• TAXATION (from " tax," derived, through the French, from Lat. taxare, to appraise, which again is connected with the same root as tangere, to touch)

taxation or otherwise, that the increased value shall come into the See also:

• POCKET

pocket of the public rather than into his . A betterment tax would be so assessed as to divert from the owner of the property the profit thus accruing " unearned " to him . (See also See also:

• COMPENSATION (from Lat. compensare, to weigh one thing against another)

COMPENSATION.) The whole problem is one of the incidence of taxation and the question of land values, and various applications of the principle of betterment have been tried in See also:

• AMERICA

America and in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, raising considerable controversy from See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to time . See A . A . Baumann, Betterment, Worsement and Recoupment (1894) .