272Margin of error allowed in description of boundaries

272 Margin of error allowed in description of boundaries From and after the first day of August One thousand eight hundred and ninety the dimensions of the boundaries of any parcel of land as stated in any document of title now made or hereafter to be made relating to such land, or as represented on any plan drawn on and referred to in any such document of title, shall unless such construction is expressly negatived or modified by such document of title or contract be construed as though the phrase "a little more or less" immediately followed and referred to the dimensions so stated or represented; and such phrase shall in all cases whether so implied or expressed be deemed to cover any difference between the dimensions so stated or represented as aforesaid and the actual dimensions of such boundaries as found by admeasurement on the ground, when such difference does not exceed the following limits, that is to say, a limit of 50 millimetres for any one boundary line irrespective of its length where the length does not exceed 40⋅30 metres, but where it exceeds 40⋅30 metres a limit equivalent to one in five hundred computed upon the total length of such boundary line. No action shall be brought by reason or in respect of such difference (whether of excess or deficit) where it does not exceed the aforesaid limits; and in any case where such difference does exceed such limits an action for damages or compensation in respect thereof shall lie in respect of such excess only. No. 3754 s. 272. S. 273 amended by No. 18/1989 s. 13(Sch. 2 item 68(c)).