Sentences with phrase «oral promise»

Do not rely on oral promises that do not appear in your contract.

However, it also offers a caution to employers against making oral promises at the time of hiring that are not contained in the employment contract.

Oral promises between spouses are unenforceable and have no value in a court of law.

NOTE: An oral promise to pay re-starts the three years.

The statute of limitations for suing someone for a car accident, and for enforcing an oral promise, are both far longer than 3 - 4 months.

And everyone should remember this maxim: An oral promise is worth the paper it's written on.»

Instead, McNeely negotiated an employment contract containing an «entire agreement» clause, which is a contractual term prohibiting parties to the contract from relying on any oral promises not written into the contract itself.

The Court of Appeal's decision reconfirms that in order for an oral promise to constitute an express term of the employment contract, the term must be sufficiently certain, based on what the parties have objectively communicated.

The question before the B.C. Court of Appeal in Aubrey v. Teck Highland Valley Copper Partnership, 2017 BCCA 144, was whether the employer had made an oral promise to an employee to pay an 18 - month severance package equal to $ 176,250 at the time of separation, regardless of whether the employee retired or was terminated.

In Led - Mil of Nevada, Inc. v. Skyland Realty and Insurance, Inc., the Supreme Court of Nevada addressed a broker's claims for breach of an oral promise and quantum meruit regarding sales and potential sales of land the broker subdivided for an owner.

Lease dispute: CNA Financial Corp. is suing Cushman & Wakefield Inc., alleging that the real estate service firm broke an oral promise to split evenly a $ 2.2 million commission on a 1998 office lease.