NOUN
- an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation
How To Use oral contract In A Sentence
- I believe that oral contract law was valid, I could rely on that, and I trusted her.
- Conversely, when performance of an oral contract is impossible during a one-year period, this provision of the statute of frauds will bar recovery on an oral contract.
- An oral contract of apprenticeship, although legally valid, is unenforceable unless and until acted upon.
- The statute of frauds operates as a defense to the enforcement of an oral contract for the sale of land.
- Conversely, when performance of an oral contract is impossible during a one-year period, this provision of the statute of frauds will bar recovery on an oral contract.
- The statute of frauds is a defense to the enforcement of this type of oral contract.
- An oral contract for supplying a haulage service is just as enforceable as a written one for this purpose.
- For the reasons given earlier, an oral contract evidenced only by a re-cap telex, does not seem to me to qualify for this purpose.
- One argument is that the parties intend to reduce their oral contract to written form, and that consequently the parol evidence rule excludes evidence to show the inconsistency.
- Since the statute of frauds is a defense against enforcement of an oral contract for the sale of land or an interest in land, problems arise when an oral contract has been partially performed.
