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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/26/1944

Siegel v. Knott

Citations

  • 316 Mass. 526
  • 55 N.E.2d 889
  • 1944 Mass. LEXIS 739

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  • \The mode of performance required by a written contract may be varied by a subsequent oral agreement based upon a valid consideration.\
  • \The mode of performance required by a written contract may be varied by a subsequent oral agreement based upon a valid consideration.\
  • the oral agreement “changed the method by which the plaintiffs had undertaken to pay their mortgage indebtedness” [emphasis supplied]
  • where “[t]he oral agreement merely changed the method by which the plaintiffs had undertaken to pay their mortgage indebtedness!,]” but did not affect the mortgagee’s “right, title and interest” in the mortgage, the agreement was not unenforceable under the Statute of Frauds

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Judges: Ronan

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