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UNITAS v. TEMPLE

No. 641, September Term, 1987.

74 Md. App. 506 (1988)

538 A.2d 1201

ANTHONY J. UNITAS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND V. RANGLE v. JANET M. TEMPLE.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Granted June 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Archibald (Kathleen M. McDonald and Venable, Baetjer and Howard, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

M. Albert Figinski (Franklin Goldstein, David R. Sonnenberg and Julie C. Janofsky and Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner, Smouse & Garbis, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before BISHOP, ALPERT and WENNER, JJ.

ALPERT, Judge.

It is axiomatic among the bench and bar that the Statute of Frauds was enacted by the English Parliament in the year 1677 "for the prevention of frauds and perjuries." That venerable piece of legislation, when viewed over the centuries since its enactment, may have created as many problems as it was intended to resolve:

Such gain in the prevention of fraud as is attained by the statute is attained at the expense of permitting persons who have...

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