This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
General principles of specific performance............................ 1418
Specific performance of contracts to bay and sell....................... 1410
Specified and unspecified goods......................................1410a
Insolvency as a ground for specific performance........................ 1420
Miscellaneous contracts............................................1421
Equity will not make a decree impossible of performance............... 1422
Equity will not make a decree involving excessive difficulty to execute.... 1423
The contract must be certain........ ............................... 1424
Discretionary character of the remedy................................ 1425
Non-disclosure.................................................... 1428
Mistake.......................................................... 1427
Inadequacy of consideration......................................... 1428
Public policy...................................................... 1429
Completeness of relief.............................................. 1430
Exceptions to the rule of complete relief.............................. 1431
A decree need not be capable of complete immediate performance........ 1432
Roles of mutuality as generally stated................................ 1433
Ames's criticisms of the rule as generally stated........................ 1434
Contracts voidable for fraud or defective title......................... 1436
A vendor with an incomplete title may be compelled to convey.......... 1436
A contract may be enforced though the plaintiff has not satisfied the statute of frauds........................................................ 1437
Contracts with infants..................................... ........ 1438
Unilateral contracts, and partly performed bilateral contracts........... 1439
True doctrine of mutuality...... ................................... 1440
Options........................................................... 1441
Terminable contracts............................................... 1442
Mutuality as a reason for giving relief where the plaintiff has an adequate remedy at law....................... ........................... 1443
Damages as alternative relief........................................ 1444
An injunction as a means of specific performance...................... 1446
Contracts in restraint of trade....................................... 1446
Lumley v. Wagner................................................. 1447
Negative covenants may be implied.................................. 1448
In England only express negative promises are enforced................ 1449
Enforcement in the United States of negative promises correlative to a more extensive affirmative............................................. 1460
Summary of principles governing enforcement of negative personal covenants.......................................................... 1450a
Mutuality in negative contracts.................................... 1461
Modification of the rule of mutuality................................. 1462
Against whom specific performance may be sought..................... 1463
 
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