 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1815 - 600 pages
...agreement. To admit it for the purpose of proving, that the written instrument does not contain the real agreement, would be the same as receiving it for every...agreement, as furnishing better evidence than any that parol can supply. If this had been a bill brought by the defendant for a specific performance,"... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1822 - 644 pages
...agreement. To admit it for the purpose of proving, that the written instrument does not contain the real agreement, would be the same as receiving it for every...purpose. It was for the purpose of shutting out that enquiry, that the rule of law was adopted. Though the written instrument does not contain the terms,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1827 - 660 pages
...the real agreement, Frauds, parol ° ' evidence can- would not be received to contradict a written agreement. would be the same as receiving it for every...agreement ; as furnishing better evidence than any parol can supply. Thus stands the rule of Law. But when Equity is called upon to exercise its peculiar jurisdiction... | |
 | Law - 1857 - 412 pages
...agreement. To admit it for the purpose of proving that the written instrument does not contain the real agreement would be the same as receiving it for every...purpose. It was for the purpose of shutting out that enquiry that the rule of law was adopted. Though the written instrument does not contain the terms;... | |
 | Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor - Equity - 1859 - 728 pages
...agreement does not contain the real agreement would be the same as receiving it for every purpose ; and it was for the purpose of shutting out that inquiry that the rule of law was adopted. Though, therefore, the written instrument does not contain the terms, it must in contemplation of law be taken... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 604 pages
...agreement. To admit it, for the purpose of proving that the Written instrument does not contain the real agreement, would be the same as receiving it for every...out that inquiry, that the rule of law was adopted. "When equity is called upon to exercise its peculiar jurisdiction by decreeing a specific performance,... | |
 | William Fischer Agnew - Statute of frauds - 1876 - 612 pages
...agreement. To admit it for the purpose of proving that the written instrument does not contain the real agreement would be the same as receiving it for every purpose. It waa for the purpose of shutting out that inquiry that the rule of law was adopted. Though the written... | |
 | Aubrey St. John Clerke, Hugh McNab Humphry - Conveyancing - 1885 - 646 pages
...the Statute the rule, of Frauds, parol evidence cannot be received to contradict a written agreement. Though the written instrument does not contain the...agreement, as furnishing better evidence than any parol can supply. Thus stands the rule of law. But when equity is called upon to exercise its peculiar jurisdiction... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 838 pages
...agreement. To admit it for the purpose of proving that the written instrument does not contain the real agreement, would be the same as receiving it for every...It was for the purpose of shutting out that inquiry the rule of law was adopted. Though the written instrument does not contain the terms, it must, in... | |
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By the rule of law, independent of the statute, parol evidence cannot be received to contradict a written agreement. To admit it for the purpose of proving that the written instrument does not contain the real agreement would be the same as receiving... 
