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(a) Contracts created by law.
(b) Instruments created under, and deriving their obligation from, special statutes.
7 25 Cyc. 1350. 8 Post, p. 207.
9 Rev. St. U. S. §§ 4S98, 4955 (U. S. Conip. St. 1901, pp. 33S7, 3407).
10 See Minor and Wurts on Real Property, p. 680.
11 8 St. at Large, 405.
12 For the provisions of sections 4 and 17, see post, pp. 80, 121.
Before taking up in turn the special contracts specified in these sections, it is proper to state the kinds of contract generally to which the statute does not apply.
Nor does the statute have any effect where the contract has been executed on both sides, for the purpose of the statute is to exclude parol evidence of the contracts within their provisions, and not to prohibit execution of oral contracts. It applies to executory contracts only.15 We shall see, in treating of the particular kinds of contracts, that under some circumstances part performance may take them out of the statute.
13 Goodwin v. Gilbert, 9 Mass. 510; Arnold v. Garst, 16 R. I. 4, 11 Atl. 167; Pike v. Brown, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 133; Sage v. Wilcox, 6 Conn., at page 84; Smith v. Bradley, 1 Root (Conn.) 150; Howard v. Whitt (Ky.) 2 S. W. 776: post, p. 119, note 90. See "Frauds, Statute of," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) §§ 124, 125; Cent. Dig. §§ 275-277 1/2.
14 Thompson v. Blanchard, 3 N. Y. 335; Doolittle V. Dininny, 31 N. Y. 350. See "Frauds, Statute of," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 121; Cent. Dig. §§ 140, 269.
15 STONE v. DENNISON, 13 Pick. (Mass.) 1, 23 Am. Dec. 654, Throckmorton, Cas. Contracts, 54; Lord Bolton v. Tomlin, 5 Adol. & El. 856; Brown v. Trust Co., 117 N. Y. 266, 22 N. E. 952; Schultz v. Noble, 77 Cal. 79, 19 Pac. 182; Swanzey v. Moore, 22 111. 63, 74 Am. Dec. 134; James, v. Morey, 44 111. 352; Bibb v. Allen, 149 U. S. 481, 13 Sup. Ct 950, 37 L. Ed. 819; Webster v. Le Compte, 74 Md. 249, 22 Atl. 232; Baldock v. Atwood, 21 Or. 73, 20 Pac. 1058; Pireaux v. Simon, 79 Wis. 392, 48 N. W. 674; Anderson School Tp. v. Milroy Lodge, 130 Ind. 108, 29 N. E. 411, 30 Am. St Rep. 206; Doherty v. Doe, 18 Colo. 456, 33 Pac. 165; Lagerfelt v. McKie, 100 Ala. 430, 14 South. 281; Hatton v. Cale, 152 Iowa, 485, 132 N. W. 1101 (contract for digging and use of ditch through land of another); James v. Manning, 79 Kan. 830, 101 Pac. 628; Kuhn v. Poole, 27 Okl. 534, 112 Pac. 962 (contract for construction and use of party wall). See "Frauds, Statute of," Dec. Dig. (Key-No.) § 189; Cent. Dig. §§ 334-341.

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