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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Two recent opinions of the Idaho Supreme Court, both filed on the same day, concern what the Court described in one those cases as “a sadly familiar story: an oral real estate transaction gone terribly wrong.” Oral real estate transactions are not recommended. In fact, Idaho’s legislature has gone to great lengths to discourage them. By statute, commonly known as the “statute of frauds,” Idaho’s legislature has tried to prevent Idaho courts from enforcing transfers of real estate or related agreements in the absence of a writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought. The only exception in the statute is for leases with a term of one year or less. ....