Smith v Matheson - [1945] NZLR 291

Contract — Statute of Frauds — Illegality — Severance of Illegal Term — Memorandum of Terms agreed upon — Preparation of more formal Contract intended by Parties — Whether Memorandum complete and enforceable Contract — Names of Parties as Purchaser and Vendor written by Agent of Defendant at Head of Memorandum — Whether such Name sufficient "Signature" — Subsequent Correspondence between Parties varying Terms — Whether Defendant's Letter could be incorporated with Memorandum so as to make his Signature to such Letter a sufficient "Signature" — Whether Option given to Plaintiff to purchase could be abandoned by Plaintiff so as to prevent operation of s 46 of Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943 — Statute of Frauds (29 Car II, c 3), s 4 — Sale of Goods Act, 1908, s 6 — Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, s 46.