Witmer v. Bloom

This appeal requires us to again construe the legal effect of the phrase “more or less” in relation to its use in the description of the quantity of acreage in a contract for the sale of land.

A helpful case note is found in 24 Maryland Law Review 210 (1964), titled, Qualifying Terms and Relief For Deficiency in Land Sales, wherein the author, capsulizing the state of the law on this matter in his final paragraph, concludes:

“With the decision in Carozza v. Peacock Land Corp., the Maryland Court of Appeals has now construed the qualifying terms most often used to modify statements of quantity…