A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made in writing and only by incorporating all the terms which the parties have expressly agreed in one document or, where contracts are exchanged, in each.
The terms may be incorporated in a document either by being set out in it or by reference to some other document.
The document incorporating the terms or, where contracts are exchanged, one of the documents incorporating them (but not necessarily the same one) must be signed by or on behalf of each party to the contract.
Where a contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land satisfies the conditions of this section by reason only of the rectification of one or more documents in pursuance of an order of a court, the contract shall come into being, or be deemed to have come into being, at such time as may be specified in the order.
This section does not apply in relation to—
and nothing in this section affects the creation or operation of resulting, implied or constructive trusts.
Nothing in this section shall apply in relation to contracts made before this section comes into force.
Section 40 of the Law of Property Act 1925 (which is superseded by this section) shall cease to have effect.