Belcher v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘The parol evidence rule forbids the proof of any oral agreement varying the time of payment, or reducing, or increasing the amount stipulated in the written contract to be paid, as for example (of the latter) an agreement that a less sum is to be paid upon a certain contingency or providing for a remission or rebate of a portion of the principal or interest, or providing that payment is to be made in something besides money.’ Under that rule the pleaded oral agreement that the notes, if any, not paid and becoming due after the deaths of Amanda A. and T. W. Belcher should be cancelled, was, we think, an agreement in necessary effect that upon a contingency, not specified in the notes, a part of the notes would not become due, or, in other words, would not constitute obligations according to their purport. It would, therefore, come within the operation of said rule.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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