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Statute against frauds, so as to protect fraud and not suppress it.

A Cot of Equity will force him to discover whether there was an agreemt in writing or no.

And the utmost the Court can do for such a deft is to give him the benefit of the matter contained in his plea at the hearing.

The material quest is whether any discovery is called for by the Bill which may take the case out of the Statute. Fraud will do so, and Oppression
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