A ruling from Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal has cleared up what makes an apparent agreement a valid binding contract in a case where two parties agreed on a price of $3.4 million to buy real estate but one side backed out.

The key elements under the court’s ruling are if the writing is signed by the party against whom specific enforcement is demanded, and that the writing must have all of the essential terms of the sale.

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