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Act No. 190 Section 335

Agreements invalid unless made in writing.

Section 335

SEC. 335. Agreements invalid unless made in writing. — In the following cases an agreement hereafter made shall be unenforceable by action unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing, and subscribed by the party charged, or by his agent; evidence, therefore, of the agreement can not be received without the writing, or secondary evidence of its contents: 1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof 2. A special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another; 3. An agreement made upon the consideration of marriage other than a mutual promise to marry; 4. An agreement for the sale of goods, chattels, or things in action, at a price not less than one hundred pesos, unless the buyer accept and receive part of such goods and chattels, or the evidences, or some of them, of such things in action, or pay at the time some part of the purchase money; but when a sale is made by auction and entry is made by the auctioneer in his sales book, at the time of the sale, of the amount of property sold, terms of sale, price, names of the purchasers, and person on whose account the sale is made, it is a sufficient memorandum; 5. An agreement for the leasing for a longer period than one year, or for the sale of real property, or of an interest therein, and such agreement, if made by the agent of the party sought to be charged, is invalid unless the authority of the agent be in writing and subscribed by the party sought to be charged; 6. No evidence is admissible to charge a person upon a representation as to the credit of a third person, unless such representation, or some memorandum thereof, be in writing, and either subscribed by or in the writing of the party to be charged.

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