Parol Evidence Rule Essay

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1. One-Year provision. The statute of frauds requires that all the contracts that cannot be performed within one year of the making of the contract be in writing or in proper electronic form. In this case, it is impossible to grow five crops of potatoes, and wait until they are mature in Idaho within a year. Therefore, this oral contract is unenforceable, but if Blair can do it within a year, then the contract is enforceable. 2. Parol evidence rule. When the parties express their contract in a writing that is intended to be the complete and final expression of their rights and duties, the parol evidence rule excludes prior oral or written negotiations or agreements of the parties of their contemporaneous oral agreements that vary or change an integrated written contract. In this case, Rachel and Bertha sighed the lease that both of them agreed with. The lease stated that, “payable in advance on the first day of each and every month of said term’. At the time the lease was signed, Bertha asked if she could pay rent on the tenth day of the month which was contradict the lease they signed. Although Rachel …show more content…

Parol evidence rule. The reason for this rule is that the parties, by reducing their entire agreement to writing, are regarded as having intended the writing that they signed to include the whole of their agreement. The rule, by excluding evidence that would tend to change, alter, vary, or modify the terms of the written agreement, safeguards the contract as made by the parties. However, The Used’s agent’s oral representations that it had never been in a wreck and could be driven at least two thousand miles without adding oil was fraudulent. The parol evidence rule does not exclude the admission of evidence to establish fraud. Fraudulent misrepresentations which induced the contract are not part of the contract but separate and apart from it. The introduction of evidence of fraud, therefore, is not prohibited by the parol evidence rule. Thus, Ann will

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