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executory contract or lease

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Executory contract

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Executory consideration

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contract

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Specific performance

not recognized this principle; it has only given damages to a suffering party for the non-performance of an executory agreement. The (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, however, imparted to the Common Law writ of mandamus a little more … lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done, and that damages at law for breach of the contract are not a sufficient com-pensation. The Common Law has not recognized this principle; it has only given damages

Impossibility

524. Impossibility owing to illness terminates a contract for personal services. The outbreak of war may terminate an executory contract, but only suspends the remedies if it has been executed, Halsb. L.E.; Hailsham, Edn., tit. 'Contracts,' p. 261,

Pawn or Pledge

should be an actual delivery of the thing to the pledgee; for until delivery, the whole contract is executory, however strong may be the engagement to deliver it; and the pledgee acquires no right of property in

Legislative contract

Matched in: Term Legislative contract

Adverse possession

to a contract, it cannot be adverse. Hence, the purchaser who got into possession of property under the executory contract of sale in a permissible character, cannot be heard to contend that his possession was adverse, 1990 LJR

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