...provides that no action shall be brought upon any agreement that is not to be performed within a year, unless the agreement, or some memorandum or note thereof, be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged thereby, or his agent, etc. Our statute of frauds and perjuries...

...26th April 1855, § 1, forbids it by declaring that no action shall be brought to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt or default of another, unless the agreement be in writing and signed by the party to be charged. The decided weight of authority and of reason...

...administrator, upon any promise to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant, upon any special promise, to answer for the debt or default of another, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and...

...another. The statute provides that " No action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant on any special promise to answer for the debt or default of another, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, signed...

...nonsuit. The supplement declares, " no action shall be brought whereby * * * to charge the defendant upon special promise to answer for the debt or default of another, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and...

...thought she could pay off. Under the Statute of Frauds the action does not lie against the defendant unless the agreement or some memorandum or note thereof be in writing and signed by her. The only writing of any sort signed by her is a receipt which reads thus: "Kitchener,...