"The law on the subject is really simple. Where a farm is sold as a represented number of acres, the vendor is liable for a deficiency in the acreage.(Doner

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

—a party contracting on an acreage basis for a specified tract at an agreed price per acre is entitled to recover the difference between the purchase price and the actual acreage times the price per acre.

—case the land was conveyed as "lots 1 and 2 in SW fractional quarter of 32-12-21 East, containing 65 acres more or less."

[BOOK] The law of restitution

[CITATION] Cases on restitution: selected from decisions of English and American courts