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when we're distinguishing between what's in a contract and what isn't we need to understand some of the core concepts in law one of those is the parole Evidence Rule now the parole Evidence Rule it's a pretty fancy phrase but it's been it just means a simple concept that the law has developed to say when people have taken the time to put a contract down into writing then if that looks like it's the whole contract then it will be treated by the courts as though it is the whole contract and if any oral statements that happened before the contract or at the time of contract conflict with that written document then the parole Evidence Rule says that what is written will prevail so clearly it means that the written contract overcomes verbal representations or promises in the event of any inconsistency however there is a bit of an hour and the out is that the parole Evidence Rule only applies if that written contract appears to be the complete record of the agreement so a court can go back and decide and say you know what I know that there's a written agreement here but we really don't think it is the entire agreement we actually think that there were some very important verbal representations that occurred as part of the bargaining process and a true meaning of Mines needs to include those verbal representations in these cases the courts saying that the written document isn't a complete record of the agreement a case that helped us think about that is Vanden assured and Chappell so in this instance we have a contract for the purchase of a house and our two parties are the sellers which is venison shirt and Chapel who is the purchaser so you know purchaser and we got our seller again this is a about the sale of the beautiful house that we have the house is going to go to Chapel the money is going to go that way so what actually happens in this case well as part of the bargaining process um Chapel us what about white ants so this is you know is there any infestation of white ants which must have been a bit of a problem in the area to which vendor Nishat says no there aren't no white ants here so they enter a contract but that isn't in the written contract so you can see the problem now when we reduce the sale of the house to a written contract and this assurance of no white hands isn't in the contract then the parole Evidence Rule would say you know what that assurance of what white ants isn't actually part of the contract so it's not a term of course the house turns they have to be infested with what is and so Chapel ends up suing bendin assured for breach of contract and the court decided in this case that actually the...