Section 1 Statute of Frauds

Section 1 of Statute of Frauds is about Parol leases and interests of freehold, etc., to have the force of estates at will only. It provides as follows:

All leases estates interests of freehold or termes of yeares or any uncertaine interest of in to or out of any messuages mannours lands tenements or hereditaments made or created by livery and seisin onely or by parole and not putt in writeing and signed by the parties soe makeing or creating the same or their agents thereunto lawfully authorised by writeing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will onely and shall not either in law or equity be deemed or taken to have any other or greater force or effect, any consideration for makeing any such parole leases or estates or any former law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

Section 1 of the Statute of Frauds has been repealed by Law of Property Act 1925