This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Agreements in consideration of marriage.............. | 485 |
Marriage settlements.................. | 486 |
Contracts for the sale of lane distingusihed from conveyances......... | 487 |
What is a contract for sale or purchase........... | 488 |
Contracts of agency and partnership............ | 489 |
Contracts of partition or fixing boundaries....... | 490 |
What is an interest in land........ | 491 |
Contracts to sell or discharge mortgage debts...... | 492 |
Contracts relating to land but not for its sale are not within the statute.... | 493 |
Part performance of agreements for the sale of land........ | 494 |
Agreements not to be performed within a year......... | 495 |
496 | |
Promises not to compete for a fixed period exceeding a year........ | 497 |
Promises subject to an express defeasance, or providing for alternative performance........... | 498 |
The form rather than the substance of an agreement may bring it within the statue............ | 499 |
Agreements of which the parties do not contemplate performance within a year................. | 500 |
Promises to marry and promises falling within other clauses of the statute.. | 501 |
Calculation of the term of a year........... | 502 |
Subsequent recognition of an oral contract which was not performable within a year............ | 503 |
Contracts performable or performed within a year on one side but not on the other.............. | 504 |
 
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