Contracts
Statute of Frauds
The rule requiring certain contracts to be written and signed to be enforceable
It captures contracts for the sale of an interest in land, and in most states leases longer than a year. It is a rule about enforceability, not validity, and it exists to keep courts out of disputes about what two people said to each other years ago.
How the exam asks about it
The lease cut-off is the state-by-state detail; the land sale rule is universal and is what the national portion tests.
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