Kelly v. State

The legislative definitions of “improvements” on school lands have had little regard for the technical *288niceties of the common law or its definitions. The Legislature has made no distinctions between “crops,” for example, and “land leveling,” nor between “improvements” which are severable from the land and those which become or are an actual part of the land itself and could never be severed. Obviously, the Legislature has treated “improvements” in a wide-ranging variety of contexts. Black’s Law Dictionary (5th Ed., 1979) defines “improvement” as: “A valuable addition made to property (usually…