What is the difference between a written contract and an oral contract?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from J. A. Folger & Co. v. Williamson, 129 Cal.App.2d 184, 276 P.2d 645 (Cal. App. 1954):

A novation may have been effected by abandonment of the old written contract and the making of the new oral contract. Pearsall v. Henry, 153 Cal. 314, 95 P. 154,

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