Specific Performance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Security
1974 (C39), ss. 189(1)] Means an instrument which guarantees the certainty of some specific thing, as, payment or performance, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 930. … only evidence of a debt. The word is not confined to a document which gives a charge on specific pro-perty but includes personal securities for money, Chetumal v. Noorbhoy, AIR 1928 Sind 89: 107 IC 213. Security,
title
title to and an insurable interest in the property] ;specif : the right to receive legal title upon performance of an obligation good title : title to property (as a negotiable instrument or real property) that is … property seized because of tax delinquency universal title : title acquired by the conveyance causa mortis of a specified proportion (as one-fourth) of all of the conveyor's property interests or all of a specified type of the
Arbitration
of the Court (s. 8), the statement of a special case (s. 9). Arbitrators have power to order specific performance (s. 7), an amount will carry interest at the same rate as a judgment debt (s. 11), and
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Chancery Amendment Act
& 22 Vict. c. 27 ('Cairns's Act'), giving the Court either in addition to or in substitution for specific performance, and to try questions of fact or to have damages assessed by a jury before the Court itself;
alternative
something which can be chosen instead in the alternative 1 : for or as an alternative [asked for specific performance, or in the alternative, damages of $20,000] [a new trial may be asked for in the alternative] 2
stipulation pour autrui
beneficiary NOTE: A stipulation pour autrui gives the third-party beneficiary a cause of action against the promisor for specific performance. In order for a third party to be a third-party beneficiary of a stipulation pour autrui there usually
Chancery
or charge; execution of trusts, charitable or private; rectification, setting aside, or cancelling deeds or other written instruments; specific performance of contracts between vendors and purchasers of real estates, including contracts for leases; partition or sale of real
Claim in respect of personal injuries
of claim is that part of the pleading where the relief sought is claimed, be it damages, injunction, specific performance, Burns v. Shuttlehurst, (1999) 1 WLR 1449.
County Courts
of the estate of a deceased person,or for execution of trusts,or for redemption of a mortgage, or for specific performance of an agreement for sale or lease of property, or under the (English) Trustee Relief Acts,or Trustee Acts,
Articles
future disposition or modification of property. Such an instrument will create a trust or equitable estate, and a specific performance of it will be decreed inequity. Articles are usually entered into for the purchase and sale of lands,
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