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CurrentConsideration or guarantee need not appear by writing
3 Consideration or guarantee need not appear by writing
No special promise to be made by any person after the passing of this Act to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, being in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorised, shall be deemed invalid to support an action, suit, or other proceeding to charge the person by whom such promise shall have been made, by reason only that the consideration for such promise does not appear in writing, or by necessary inference from a written document.
[4. Deleted: WA by 59 Vict. No. 23 s. 4.] 5
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