main purpose rule

main-purpose rule. Contracts. The doctrine that if a promise to guarantee another’s debt is made primarily for the promisor’s own benefit, then the statute of frauds does not apply and the promise does not have to be in writing. — Also termed main-purpose doctrine; leading-object rule. [Cases: Frauds, Statute of 23.]

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