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Rule 11. Agreements To Be in Writing

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No agreement between attorneys or parties touching any suit pending will be enforced unless it be in writing, signed and filed with the papers as part of the record, or unless it be made in open court and entered of record.

Source: Texas Rule 47 (for District and County Courts), unchanged.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.

AMENDMENTS

July 15, 1987, eff. Jan. 1, 1988