A New Jersey appeals court ruled that a phone call was sufficient for a home seller to cancel a residential sales contract that was under attorney review. But the court emphasized that its unpublished ruling applies only to the narrow circumstances of the case.

“[T]his opinion should not be read as effecting any change to the four methods of disapproving a residential sales contract. … [O]ral notification of cancellation is fraught with risk, and an attorney who relies on oral notice proceeds at her—and her client’s—peril,” the appeals court said.