Homer Buffaloe was a tobacco farmer who rented five tobacco barns from Patricia and Lowell Hart (the Harts). After renting the barns for a few years, Buffaloe offered to pay $20,000 for the five barns in four annual installments of $5,000 each. Buffaloe met the Harts in their front yard, where the Harts accepted Buffaloes offer with a handshake. Buffaloe later said, "I had bought some equipment prior to then, and we always done it on a handshake agreement, cash basis. That's the way it was." Afterward, Buffaloe had told several people about purchasing the barns, retained possession of the barns, reimbursed the Harts for insurance they purchased on the barns, and paid for improvements. Buffaloe also enlisted the aid of an auctioneer and a newspaper to sell the barns and received deposits from three potential buyers. The following year, Patricia Hart called the Buffaloe and asked if he could "straighten up with her." Buffaloe told Patricia Hart that he intended to sell the barns, and delivered the first $5,000 payment to the Harts a few days later. The memorandum line on the check indicated that the check was for the payment of five barns. The following evening, Patricia Hart informed Buffaloe that "she didn't want to sell [him] the barns" and that "she'd already sold them" to somebody else. A few days later, the Harts returned the check to Buffaloe torn into pieces. Buffaloe later learned that the Harts sold the five barns to "the same guys" Buffaloe had agreed to sell them to in the first place.

1. The Statute of Frauds requires certain types of contracts to be in writing. All of these contracts must be in writing except ?

2. Does the purchase of tobacco barns fall under the Statute of Frauds?

3. Under which category?

4. Select is an exception to the writing requirement of the Statute of Frauds.

5. In general, partial performance indicates that Select believe(s) there is a contract.

6. In cases involving oral contracts for the transfer of interests in land, courts usually look at whether Select is better served by enforcing the oral contract when partial performance has taken place.

7. In determining whether an oral contract has sufficient partial performance to be enforced, courts look for whether the purchaser has: Select

8. In this case, Buffaloe Select offer to pay part of the price for the sheds.

9. Buffaloe Select retain possession of the barns.

10. Buffaloe also Select reimburse the Harts for insurance payments and Select organize an auction to resell the barns.

11. In this case, there Select sufficient evidence to show that the contract had been partially performed by the parties.

12. Therefore, a court could Select the oral agreement between Buffaloe and the Harts as a valid contract under the partial performance exception to the writing requirement of the Statute of Frauds.