Statute of Frauds

Question 1

Three steps for Statute of Frauds

Answer 1

Is it in the Statute?
Statute Satisfied?
Exception?

Question 2

Restatement (Second) of Contracts §110. Classes of Contracts Covered

Answer 2

(1) The following classes of contracts are subject to a statute, commonly called the Statute of Frauds, forbidding enforcement unless there is a written memorandum or an applicable exception:

a contract of an executor or administrator to answer for a duty of his decedent (the executor-administrator provision);

a contract to answer for the duty of another (the suretyship provision);

a contract made upon consideration of marriage (the marriage provision);

a contract for the sale of an interest in land (the land contract provision);

a contract that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof (the one-year provision).