Case: Simon bought a townhouse that he rented out to Shannon, a flight attendant at SPA They had no written contract but merely agreed on a 3 year lease. Shannon had been using the townhouse and had been paying the rental for more than a year when she had accepted a better job offer from another airline. Since Singapore is going to be her new base, she decided without informing Simon to sublease the townhouse to Sylvia, an ofce clerk in SPA. Can Simon compel Shannon to reduce the lease agreement into writing? Ans: Yes. Although this covered by the statute of frauds because this is a lease of a real property for more than one year, however, this contract is taken out of the operation of the statute of frauds under the doctrine of part performance because of the fact that Shannon had already been paying for rentals for more than a year and she had stayed in this townhouse for the said period. Problem: What if the action is an action filed by a party against another party for recovery of the money or the property which he delivered to the other party, will the action prosper? Ans: Under the Pari delicto rule, the SC will tell the trial court not to give aid to the either party, they should be left as they are because they entered into this contract. For Pari delicto to apply, the contract must be illegal, it must have an uniawful cause or unlawful objet. So if the parties entered to this unlawful contract, they cannot have any remedy under the law