 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 pages
...upon any agreement in consideration of marriage, or upon any contract or sale of any real estate, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making ; unless the agreement or some memorandum thereof be in writing, and signed by the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1828 - 810 pages
...Wilde Serjt. with him) to support their rule. By the statute of frauds, no action shall be brought on any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing. And although it has been decided,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Powell Mason - 1831 - 636 pages
...to charge, 8ic. 8ic. any person upon any contract for the sale of lands, &c. &ic. unless the promise or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought,...signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person, by him thereto lawfully authorized." I will first consider, whether the petition and... | |
 | George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - 1833 - 640 pages
...which is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof, unless the promise or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought,...signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereto lawfully authorized." It appears to me, that the legislature manifestly... | |
 | 1833 - 548 pages
...enacted that no action shall be brought upon any contract or sale of lands, or any interest in them that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged. And it has been held under this... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1835 - 620 pages
...HALE, ET AL. May T. 1833, 10 Wend. NY Rep. 426; LOWN v. WINTERS, ib. 364. No action shall be brought upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year, unless in writing. The construction of the English statute, is held to embrace cases only, which ,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 852 pages
...upon any agreement in consideration of marriage, or upon any contract or sale of any real estate, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making; unless the agreement, or some memorandum thereof, be in writing, and signed by the... | |
 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - 1837 - 614 pages
...agreement must be reduced into writing; for by statute(a) it is enacted, "that no action shall be brought upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 pages
...any agreement made in consideration of marriage, or upon any contract or sale of any real estate, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making; unless the agreement or some memorandum thereof be in writing, and signed by the party... | |
 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 pages
...10,000/. need not be in writing. The words of the statute are however express ; that no action shall lie upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year after the making thereof, unless it be reduced into writing and signed, Accordingly, when the defendant's... | |
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Fifthly, upon any agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof; unless the promise, contract or agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by... 
