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	{{a\|contract\|}}The [[Statute of Frauds]] is, get this, ''current English law''. It was enacted to meet the danger that certain types of contract (those relating to wills, [[surety]] (~~i.e.~~ [[guarantee]]s), marriages and land transfers) must be in writing and signed to avoid fraud on the court by perjury and subornation ~~of perjury~~ — or convenient evidence of "loose talk, when it never was really meant to make such a contract" — {{casenote\|Steele\|M’Kinlay}}.		{{a\|contract\|}}The [[Statute of Frauds]] is, get this, ''current English law''. It was enacted to meet the danger that certain types of contract (those relating to wills, [[surety\|sureties]] ([[guarantee]]s), marriages and land transfers) must be in writing and signed, to avoid fraud on the court by perjury and subornation — or convenient evidence of "loose talk, when it never was really meant to make such a contract" — {{casenote\|Steele\|M’Kinlay}}.

	It also required that court documents be signed and dated.		It also required that court documents be signed and dated.