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Jessica verbally agrees to sell her house to kandis, and kandis makes a $10,000 down payment, moves in, and begins the installation of a pool in the backyard. if jessica changes her mind seven months later and wants her house back, a court would likely find that:

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That there was no contractual obligation binding on Kandis to keep house and that it was just a 'gentlemen' agreement between the two. The court will observe that in the absence of a written agreement Kandis still has ownership rights. The situation is exasperated if there were no witnesses to the payment of the down payment.
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