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part performance

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 76 U.S. 1 - Neale v. Neales · 1869Most cited · 134 citing opinions

A part performance removes the bar of the statute, on the ground that it is a fraud for the vendor to insist on the absence of a written instrument, when he had permitted the contract to be partly executed.

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The doing some portion, yet not the whole, of what either party to a contract has agreed to do. Borrow v. Borrow, 34 Wash. 684, 76 Pac. 305.

Defined under Performance in Black's Law Dictionary.