| Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Vendors and purchasers - 1818 - 862 pages
...as Lord Hardwicke observes, to add any thing to an agreement in writing by admitting parol evidence, is not only contrary to the statute of frauds and perjuries, but to the ride of the common law before that statute was in being (r). Thus, in a leading case on this subject... | |
| William Cruise - Real property - 1824 - 528 pages
...parol evidence, which would affect land, was not only contrary to the c.'i™yi9. statute of frauds, but to the rule of the common law, before that statute was in being ; and it has been laid ^instead v. ' . Coleman, down by the Court of Exchequer, that where there is... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 1232 pages
...to add any thing to an agreement in writing, by admitting parol evidence, which would affect land, is not only contrary to the statute of frauds and perjuries, but to the rule of common law before that statute was in being." Assuming, however, that an agreement for the purchase... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1838 - 1358 pages
...Parteriche v. Powlet, 2 Atk. 384, where Lord Hardwicke said, " to add any thing to an agreement in writing, by admitting parol evidence which would affect lands, is not only contrary to the Statute of Frauds, but to the rule of common law, before that statute was in being." The same principle is laid down by... | |
| Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 970 pages
...Parteriche vs. Powlett, 2 Atk., 383, Lord Hardwicke ;,ays : "To add anything to an agreement in writing, by admitting parol evidence which would affect lands,...the common law before that statute was in being." In the case of Brodie vs. St. Paul, 1 Ves. Jr., 326, Mr. Justice Buller says : "The question here is,... | |
| Joseph Henry Dart - Real property - 1851 - 1234 pages
...an agreement in writing by admitting parol evidence, is not only contrary to the statute of frauds, but to the rule of the common law, before that statute was in being. But after the agreement has been reduced into writing, it is competent to the parties at any time before... | |
| Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - Forms (Law) - 1852 - 770 pages
...an agreement in writing by admitting parol evidence, is not only contrary to the statute of frauds, but to the rule of the common law, before that statute was in being. But after the agreement has been reduced into writing, it is competent to the parties at any time before... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 580 pages
..." To add any thing to an agreement in writing by admitting parole evidence which would affect land, is not only contrary to the statute of frauds and perjuries, but to the rule of tlie common law before that statute was in being." Land was not the immediate subject of the agreement... | |
| Delaware. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1876 - 584 pages
...agreement in Opinion:—authorities reviewed. writing, by admitting parol evidence which would affect land, is not only contrary to the statute of frauds and...the common law before that statute was in being." The reasoning of Lord Thurlow in the case of Lord Irnham cs. Child, 1 Br<>. Ch. Rep. 92, is peculiarly... | |
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