                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN WRITTEN EVIDENCE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN ACTION (§ 11-2)

Unless a promise, contract, agreement, representation, assurance, or
ratification, or some memorandum or note thereof, is in writing and signed by
the party to be charged or his agent, no action shall be brought in any of the
following cases:

1. To charge any person upon or by reason of a representation or assurance
concerning the character, conduct, credit, ability, trade, or dealings of
another, to the intent or purpose that such other may obtain thereby, credit,
money, or goods;

2. To charge any person upon a promise made after attaining the age of majority,
to pay a debt contracted during infancy, or upon a ratification after attaining
the age of majority, of a promise or simple contract made during infancy;

3. To charge a personal representative upon a promise to answer any debt or
damages out of his own estate;

4. To charge any person upon a promise to answer for the debt, default, or
misdoings of another;

5. Upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage;

6. Upon any contract for the sale of real estate, or for the lease thereof for
more than a year;

7. Upon any agreement or contract for services to be performed in the sale of
real estate by a party defined in &#xA7; 54.1-2100;

8. Upon any agreement that is not to be performed within a year; or

9. Upon any agreement or promise to lend money or extend credit in an aggregate
amount of $25,000 or more.
			The consideration need not be set forth or expressed in the writing, and it
may be proved (where a consideration is necessary) by other evidence.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5561; 1976, c. 157; 1990, c. 570; 2024, cc. 459, 621.