delivered the opinion of the court.
The description, “Fractional N. W. corner of S. W. -J of section 6, T. 13, R. 6, containing 33 acres,” is sufficiently certain. A corner is not a square. In the measurement and description of land it has a fixed meaning. As held in Bowers v. Chambers, 53 Miss., 267, where the description was “ 14 acres off of the N. E. corner, E. 1, ’ ’ etc. A corner is “ a base point from which two sides of the land conveyed shall extend an equal distance, so as to include, by parallel lines, the quantity conveyed. ” Counsel for appellee concede that the description would be good, but for the use of the word “fractional.” They make the word ‘‘ fractional ’ ’ qualify the word ‘ ‘ corner, ’ ’ making corner describe the space between the lines, and argue from that assumed premise, with perfect accuracy, that a fractional corner — using corner in that sense — may be so made fractional or broken or irregular, in many ways, and hence it is absolutely uncertain what land was meant to be conveyed, But, as said, a corner, in this use of the word, does not mean a square, but ‘ £ a base point ’ ’ from which to start the measure
Decree reversed, demurrer overruled cmd cause remmided, with leave to answer in thirty days after filvncj of mandate in court below.