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<subtitle article="gcj" title_number="5" subtitle_number="9" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_name="Statute of Frauds">
  <section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-901" title_number="5" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Statute of Frauds">
    <text>Unless a contract or agreement upon which an action is brought, or some memorandum or note of it, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or another person lawfully authorized by that party, an action may not be brought:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To charge a defendant on any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To charge any person on any agreement made on consideration of marriage; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>On any agreement that is not to be performed within 1 year from the making of the agreement.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>