Can an agreement be reduced to writing?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Thorburn Aviation v. Duffitt, 2014 CanLII 48354 (NL PC):
The fact that an agreement has not been reduced to writing is not necessarily fatal, as long as the terms and conditions of the agreement are clear. In McCabe v. Verge, [1999] N.J. No. 272 (NLCA), Green J.A. (as he then was) said as follows:
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