case seafood versus meal and leonard see Maddison v Alderson App Cas vide stat  g c pale yellow Chan Eq Abr p strange atk vide Comynss dig title agreement a  agree with b for the purchase of house which be in mortgage to I S and pay he  a guinea in earnest b write a note to I S and desire he to deliver up the  write he have dispose of they which I S refuse unless all the mortgage money  be pay he down and afterward purchase they himself on a bill bring by a for a  specific execution of the agreement it be hold that neither the guinea pay  down nor the note which be only a evidence of assent but do not ascertain the  term of the agreement be sufficient to take it out of the statute of fraud and  perjury the bill be bring for a specific execution of a agreement for the  purchase of nine house which be in mortgage to the defendant Leonard for pound  the defendant precedent in chancery er p meal the owner of the house agree to  sell they to the plaintiff for such a sum of money and the plaintiff pay he a  guinea in part and send a note to this effect Mr Leonard pray deliver my write  to the bearer I have agree to dispose of they be your humble servant the  defendant Leonard will not part with they unless all his money be pay he down  and after buy the house of meal himself and thereupon the plaintiff bring this  bill the defendant by his answer insist upon the statute of fraud and perjury  and the question be whether the letter or note will bring it out of the  statute for as to the payment of the guinea that be precedent in chancery  agree clear of no consequence in case of a agreement touch end or house the  payment of money be only bind in case of contract for good Eq Abr and it be  decree that will not for it ought to be such a agreement as specify the term  thereof which this do not though it be sign by the party for this mention not  the sum that be to be pay nor the number of house that be to be dispose of  whether all or some or how many nor to who they be to be dispose of neither do  this letter mention whether they be to be dispose of by way of sale or  assignment of lease and so all the danger of perjury which the statute be to  provide against will be let in to ascertain this agreement this case differ  from a case which be cite of a letter write by one promise to give such a  fortune with his daughter to one who shall marry her a man who marry on the  encouragement of this letter shall recover because the agreement be execute on  his part as far as it can be and can never be undo after ante Eq Abr pl vent  vern viner Abr pl so where a man on promise of a lease to be make to he lie  out money on improvement be shall oblige the lessor afterward to execute the  lease because it be execute on the part of the lessee beside that the lessor  shall not take advantage of his own fraud to run away with the improvement  make by another but if no such expense have be on the lessee part a bare  promise of the lease though accompany with possession as where a lessee by  parole agree to take a lease for a term for year certain and continue in  possession on the credit thereof yet there be no write to make out this  agreement it be direct within the statute and so be hold by the master of the  roll in the case of smith and turner vern mich last at the roll and in the  principal case the bill be dismiss but without cost for some fraud in the  defendant to defeat the plaintiff of his bargain