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Contracts Not To Be Performed Within A Year Under Statute Of Frauds In Washington, J. Orrin Vining
Contracts Not To Be Performed Within A Year Under Statute Of Frauds In Washington, J. Orrin Vining
Washington Law Review
The statute of frauds in Washington, states that in certain specified cases an agreement, contract and promise shall be void unless the same or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith. By subdivision I this provision extends to every agreement that by its terms is not to be performed in one year from the making thereof. Two recent decisions of our Supreme Court have gone into an extended interpretation of this subdivision regarding two troublesome questions of law arising thereunder. The first of these questions is: What is the test …
Cases On Equity, By Walter Wheeler Cook (1926), C. M. Bishop
Cases On Equity, By Walter Wheeler Cook (1926), C. M. Bishop
Washington Law Review
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Warehouse Receipts As Collateral, Crawford M. Bishop
Warehouse Receipts As Collateral, Crawford M. Bishop
Washington Law Review
A warehouse receipt is a contract, delivery of which carries constructive possession and often title to the goods represented thereby. The common law receipt was not negotiable but rather assignable as any other contract. The delivery of the receipt represented the delivery of the goods, and operated to vest in the assignee the same title as would be vested by an actual transfer of the goods themselves coupled with a similar agreement. "At common law a valid assignment could be made without indorsement by a mere delivery of the receipt, with intent to pass title to the goods. And, statutes …