Bennett v. Charles Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• because the Bennetts’ deed contained no restrictions, we refused “to sanction the substitution of verbal declarations for written instruments in the creation and transfer of estates in land”
• “[A] defendant may be estopped to assert the Statute of Frauds in defense of an action for enforcement where certain limited circumstances exist. Those limited situations include fraud and part performance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).