The Statute of Frauds (29 Cha. 2. c. 3) is an act of the Parliament of England enacted in 1677. In its original form it required that certain kinds of contracts, wills and grants, along with the assignment or surrender of leases or interests in real property, be put in writing and signed, in order to prevent fraud on the courts through perjury and the subornation of perjury, and it also required that court documents themselves be signed and dated. Most of the statute has since been repealed, and only section 4, which concerns guarantors, remains in force today.
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