Weale v. Massachusetts General Housing Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the statute of frauds “is intended to promote certainty and to protect from frauds and perjuries in land transactions”
• stating that “mere refusal to carry out an oral promise to convey land standing by itself is not fraud or ground for relief 1 ’ from statute of frauds
• explaining how the doctrine of part performance applies when “enforcing] the statute would result in unjust enrichment to the seller”
• discussing the statute of frauds for land sale contracts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).