Does the Statute of Frauds prevent the enforcement of a verbal agreement as to the performance of a specific performance of the verbal agreement?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from D’Ascenzo v Nichols, 2016 ONSC 7645 (CanLII):
The Statute of Frauds does not prevent the enforcement of or prevent a court granting specific performance of a verbal agreement as to land partially or fully performed: Hill v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General), [1997] 1 S.C.R. 68 (S.C.C.), at p. 74 and 75.
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