Note 472 — Chapter IV
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The Pennsylvania Statute of Frauds, Act of March 21, 1772, 1 Smith’s Laws of Pennsylvania, 389, omitted the fourth section of the Act of 29, Charles II, chapter 3, making it possible to bring an action for damages for breach of parol contracts relating to land. Wilson v. Clarke, 1 Watts & Sergeant’s Reports, 554 (1841). Lewis’s Cases on Specific Performance, 128. Pepper and Lewis’s Digest of Decisions, Vol. 20, col. 34592.