Beckham v. Short

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• noting that under the then-applicable statute, “trusts in lands not manifested and proved by some writing signed by the party declaring the trust are utterly void and of no effect” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• Statute of Frauds rather than parol evidence rule prohibits oral agreement regarding conveyance of land

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).