{"id":191,"date":"2015-04-15T20:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amerilawyer-blog.local\/?p=191"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:47:32","slug":"are-written-contracts-enforceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/business\/are-written-contracts-enforceable","title":{"rendered":"Are Written Contracts Enforceable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amerilawyer-blog.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/amerilawyer-blog.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image1-580x580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In large part, the terms of a <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/agree_order.htm\" target=\"_blank\">written agreement<\/a><\/span> between parties are the sole item considered when interpreting the items of an agreement upon a dispute between parties. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;parole evidence rule&#8221;<\/a> is a common law principle which bars factors outside a written agreement to contradict the terms of a written contract except in cases of fraud, illegality, duress, or in some cases mistakes and ambiguity the written agreement. Oral promises made before or when a written agreement are entered that contradict a written agreement, cannot be considered when a dispute arises under common law principles.<\/p>\n<p>However, a recent court decision has changed this basic rule when it reversed long-standing precedent by holding that evidence of broken oral promises that contradict the express terms of a written contract are no longer barred by the parole evidence rule.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> for more information and to make sure your interests are protected!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[9,71,26],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-legal-services","tag-amerilawyer","tag-contract","tag-legal-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amerilawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}