Sentence examples for decree for specific performance from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
It sued for "specific performance," demanding that Dow Chemical complete the deal it had agreed to.
Instead, Accredited negotiated a favorable material adverse change clause and provided for specific performance in their agreement.
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.
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.
Biological passports work by creating individual blood profiles for each athlete, instead of testing for specific, performance-enhancing drugs.
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.
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.
