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