Statute of Frauds

1. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 2 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 101 · consensv obligationes. (2)

   Cited by the editor as the English statutory basis for a comparative point about executors' liability.

   By English law the executor in every case is bound to make an inventory, and in no case is he answerable to the testator’s creditors beyond the assets that come to his hands, unless for a sufficient consideration he make his own estate chargeable by a written engagement, as provided by the Statute of Frauds.

2. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 31 2 passages anchored here · ii.—: slander of title.

   The Statute of Frauds is explicitly named and its terms compared with the later statute under discussion.

   This is something more stringent than the Statute of Frauds, for nothing is said, as in that statute, about the signature of a person “thereunto lawfully authorized,” and it has been decided that signature by an agent will not do.

3. Law in a Free State Wordsworth Donisthorpe 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 3 · ch. 9

   The statute is invoked as a recognised legal authority to support the analogy the author draws about the State's rationale for regulating gaming contracts.

   Again, the State refuses to sanction betting contracts for the same reason that under the Statute of Frauds it requires certain agreements to be in writing;

4. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 40

   Explicitly named: 'the fourth section of the Statute of Frauds, though they originally introduced some new rule... have been the subject of so much judicial interpretation.'

   the fourth section of the Statute of Frauds, though they originally introduced some new rule or principle into the law of England, have been the subject of so much judicial interpretation as to derive nearly all their real significance from the sense put upon them by the Courts.

5. The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 neutral 1 citation

   vi.: alliance and conquest

   The Statute of Frauds is named directly as a specific legislative enactment affecting the incorporated law merchant, cited neutrally as a fact.

   including legislative regulation such as the Statute of Frauds.

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