126 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



And where the quantity of land is mentioned, in addition 

 to a description of the boundaries, without any express cov- 

 enant that the land contains tliat quantity, the whole will be 

 considered as mere description, and the quantity must yield 

 to the location by certain boundaries. 



But if there be a map or plan of the land, upon which the 

 lines are laid down, and the map or plan be referred to in the 

 deed, it becomes as much the true description of the land con- 

 veyed as though it had been incorporated by a recital in ex- 

 press terms in the deed. 



And where a line is described as measuring a certain num- 

 ber of feet, "more or less," and there is nothing in the 

 description given in the deed or in the subject to which it 

 applies, to explain it, the number of feet mentioned is to be 

 the precise length of the boundary line. 



A boundary from one bound to another is to be regarded 

 as a straight line, unless a different one is defined in the deed ; 

 so a line which is defined by the location of a Virginia fence, 

 is held to be a straight line extendino: through the centre of 

 the fence. t 



"V\'Tien a conveyance of land is made which adjoins a stream 

 of water, a highway or a building or structure, it often be- 

 comes important to know whether the boundar}^ line extends 

 to the centre or side of the object named. 



Generally, a deed of land bounded " by," " on," or " upon " 

 a highway conveys the land, subject to the public easement, 

 to the centre of the highwa3^ But where the boundary line 

 in a deed begins at a stake " on the side" of a highway, and 

 thence by various courses and distances to said road or high- 

 way, thence by said highway to the place of beginning, no 

 part of the road is included ; and where the deed bounds land 

 " on a road," but metes and bounds are also defined which 

 plainly exclude the road, no part of the road passes. 



A boundary of land to a highway, thence " upon " said 

 highway, passes the land to the centre, although the length 

 of the line given carries it only to the side of the highway, — 

 unless there is a fixed monument on the side of said high- 

 way. 



If a grantor of land, bounded on a private way, owns both 

 sides of said private way, a conveyance " hy " or " on " the 



