The phrase "a decree of specific performance" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to a court order that requires a party to fulfill their obligations under a contract.
Example: "The judge issued a decree of specific performance, compelling the seller to complete the sale of the property as agreed."
Alternatives: "an order for specific performance" or "a ruling for specific performance".
Akorn sued, seeking a declaration that Fresenius's attempted termination of the merger agreement was invalid and a decree of specific performance compelling Fresenius to close.
This marks an important difference between specific performance and money damages: unlike a decree of specific performance, an award of damages is in form a judgment of law, a declaration of the rights of the litigants, and not a direct order to the losing party.
It is, however, urged that the state court was ousted of the jurisdiction to enter a decree for specific performance, because the bill went farther, and prayed that the defendants, and each of them, should be enjoined from manufacturing or selling the machines covered by patent 725,349.
Whether it should be enforced specifically admits of more doubt, the question being whether it is certain enough for that purpose (Fry, Spec. Perf. §§380-386) and whether a decree for specific performance would not call on the court to do more than it is in the habit of undertaking.
The buyer is entitled to a decree for delivery (specific performance) only if damages are an inadequate remedy because the buyer cannot obtain substitute goods in the market.
The truth is that, upon the principles of natural justice, Courts of Equity might proceed much farther, and insist upon decreeing a specific performance of all bona fide contracts; since that is a remedy, to which Courts of Law are inadequate.
The fundamental principles which guide a court of equity in decreeing the specific performance of contracts are essentially the same whether the contracts relate to realty or to personalty.
Echoing a commonly held biker sentiment, he believes that factory-issued pipes, muffled by a decree of the Environmental Protection Agency, choke performance and are so quiet that car and truck drivers will not hear them.
We submit that the agreement in the present case being one of which the Court cannot decree specific performance, the jurisdiction by injunction does not attach.
Exemptions from prescription charges for drugs and appropriate diagnostic tests (specific to each chronic condition) are currently applicable to patients with certain chronic conditions, as established in a Decree of the Ministry of Public Health approved in 1999.
