TITLE 6. COMMERCE
AND TRADE
CHAPTER 27. CONTRACTS
SUBCHAPTER II.
STATUTE OF FRAUDS AND PERJURIES
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§ 2714. Necessity
of writing for contracts; definition of writing; evidence
(a) No action shall be brought to charge any
person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage, or upon any
contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or
concerning them, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the
space of one year from the making thereof, or to charge any person to answer
for the debt, default, or miscarriage, of another, in any sum of the value of $
25 and upwards, unless the contract is reduced to writing, or some memorandum,
or notes thereof, are signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some
other person thereunto by the party lawfully authorized in writing.
(b) [omitted]
(c) For the
purposes of this section, "writing" includes microphotography,
photography and photostating, and a microphotographic, photographic or
photostatic copy of any agreement covered by this section. Such copy or copies having been regularly
made and kept in the course of business, shall be equally competent as evidence
as the original of such agreement, where the original is inaccessible or has
been destroyed or otherwise disposed of in good faith in the regular course of
business and where the mode of making such microphotograph, photograph or
photostat was such as to justify its admission as a true copy of the original.