TA Dellaca Ltd v PDL Industries Ltd - [1992] 3 NZLR 88

Contract — Enforcement of contract — Specific performance — Oral contract relating to sale of land — Absence of signed note or memorandum — Whether doctrine of "authenticated signature fiction" applied — Purchaser's entry into possession — Whether entry into possession was qua-purchaser or qua-lessee — Purchaser carrying out work on premises — Whether actions of purchaser constituted part performance — Contracts Enforcement Act 1956, s 2.