Although the Statute of Frauds (General Obligations Law § 5-703) is a bar to an action on a contract which requires a writing, such as the contract alleged by plaintiffs for the sale of real property (General Obligations Law § 5-703 [2]), the Statute will not prevent enforcement of an oral contract where there has been part performance "`unequivocally referable'" to the purported agreement and nonenforcement will result in injustice (Club Chain v Christopher...
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