COMM 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personal Property, Easement, Life Estate
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Requirements of writing: for a contract to be enforceable it must be in writing. 1st, 2017, and at the middle they decided to terminate you may 31st, 2018. No because the contract was made on may 31st, we don"t look at the date of employment. If the contract is outside of one year it must be in writing to be enforceable. In some provinces, a contract that cannot be fully performed within one year: real property is land or interest in land anything that is immovable, personal property: personal belongings (movable) Any contract dealing with real property must be in writing one exemption doctrine of part performance: doctrine of performance: unwritten contract is enforceable but certain conditions may apply. But we are looking at contract concerning land: verbal contract can be enforceable. To make sure there is no mortgage, no tax lien, no restrictive covenants: the highest form of ownership is called fee simple, registry system.