West Virginia Code § 55-1-1

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No action shall be brought in any of the following cases:
(a) To charge any person upon or by reason of a representation or assurance concerning the
character, conduct, credit, ability, trade, or dealings of another, to the intent or purpose that
such other may obtain thereby credit, money, or goods; or
(b) To charge any person upon a promise made, after full age, to pay a debt contracted
during infancy; or upon a ratification after full age, of a promise or simple contract made
during infancy; or u
(c) To charge a personal representative upon a promise to answer any debt or damages out
of his own estate; or
(d) To charge any person upon a promise to answer for the debt, default, or misdoings of
another; or l
(e) Upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage; or
(f) Upon any agreement that is not to be performed within a year; or
(g) Upon any offer, agreement, representation, assurance, understanding, commitment, or
contract of a bank, savings ande loan association, or credit union, to extend credit or to make
a loan in excess of $50,000, primarily for nonagricultural, business or commercial purposes,
not including charge or Lcredit card accounts, personal lines of credit, overdrafts, or any
other consumer account: Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to any offer,
agreement, represen tation, assurance, understanding, commitment or contract with a bank,
savings and loan association or credit union in which a transaction has been completed as
evidenced by a fund transfer;
UnlWess the offer, promise, contract, agreement, representation, assurance, or ratification, or
some memorandum or note thereof, be in writing and signed by the party to be charged
thereby or his agent. But the consideration need not be set forth or expressed in the writing;
and it may be proved (where a consideration is necessary) by other evidence.

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