STATUTE OF FRAUDS AMENDMENT ACT, 1828

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		STATUTE OF FRAUDS AMENDMENT ACT 1828
		C A P. XLIII.
		CHAPTER XIV.
		An Act for rendering a written Memorandum necessary to the Validity of certain Promises and Engagements. [9th May 1828.]
		[Preamble recites English Act 21 Ja. 1. c. 16., and Irish Act 10 Cha. 1. sess. 2. c. 6.]
		1.[¹] In actions of debt or upon the case grounded upon any simple contract no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take any case out of the operation of the said enactments or either of them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall be made or contained by or in some writing to be signed by the party chargeable thereby; and where there shall be two or more joint contractors, or executors or administrators of any contractor, no such joint contractor, executor, or administrator shall lose the benefit of the said enactments or either of them, so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only of any written acknowledgment or promise made and signed by any other or others of