Description by subdivisions is not controlling unless such a rule is established, and necessary to effect the intent of the parties

—case overlooks certain principles approved by competent authority which, when applied to the facts, sustain the action of the trial court irrespective of the matter of fraud.

Such words negative the idea of exact knowledge and import that the actual quantity is a mere approximation to that named, but allow for a reasonable excess of deficiency

Where land is conveyed by metes and bounds, whether there be more or less than the quantity named in the deed, the purchaser receives the whole of it.

The statement in the deed of the number of acres conveyed, with the addition of the words "more or less," was a matter of description only

[CITATION] Patton and Palomar on Land Titles

[CITATION] Patton on Land Titles

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