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Oral Contract

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Oral Contracts
possessive
Oral Contract's
pluralpossessive
Oral Contracts'