Frauds

STATUTE OF. This is the common designation of a very celebrated English statute, (29 Car, II. ¢. 3,) passed in 1677, and which has been adopted, in a more or lesa modified form, in nearly all of the United States. Its chief characteristie is the provision that nu suit or action shall be maintained on certain classes of contracts or engagements unless there slali be a note or memorandum thereof in writing signed by the numerous frauds which were believed to be perpetrated, and the perjuries which were believed to be commitied, when such obligations could be enforced upon no other evidence than the mere recollection of witnesses. It is more fully named as the “statute of frauds and perjuries.”