It has been observed that the most surveyors prepare dispute plans with many parcels of land contained in the plan, verging them with different colours to distinguish the land in dispute from other adjoining parcels of land. This is not the right way of preparing a "dispute plan". As the name goes, a dispute plan must contain , just "the land in dispute".

In a matter bothering on the declaration of title to land in Nigeria, both the plaintiff(s)/claimant(s) and the defendant(s) are in dispute over one and the same parcel of land; that is, the same parcel of land being claimed by the plaintiff(s), is the same parcel of land being claimed / occupied by the defendant(s), that is the reason for the dispute.

The dispute plan therefore, contains the parcel of land (just a polygon) jointly claimed by the parties as their land, upon which they want the court to determine the true owner through the evidences adduced by them. See Dosunmu v. Joto (1987) 4 N.W.L.R (pt.65) 297 at 311

(Credit to Barr. Ogbebor)