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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statute-of-frauds-1677/section-IV",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/29/3",
  "legislation_title": "Statute of Frauds (1677)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statute-of-frauds-1677",
  "path": "section/IV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "No Action against Executors, &c. upon a special Promise, or upon any Agreement, or Contract for Sale of Lands, &c. unless Agreement, &c. be in Writing and signed.",
  "text": "Noe Action shall be brought . . . whereby to charge the Defendant upon any speciall promise to answere for the debt default or miscarriages of another person . . . unlesse the Agreement upon which such Action shall be brought or some Memorandum or Note thereof shall be in Writeing and signed by the partie to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Law Reform (Enforcement of Contracts) Act 1954 (c. 34), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Law of Property Act 1925 (c. 20), Sch. 7 and Law Reform (Enforcement of Contracts) Act 1954 (c. 34), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 excluded (26.12.2003) by The Financial Collateral Arrangements (No.2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3226), reg. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/29/3/section/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:24.875315+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}