 | Law - 1848 - 562 pages
...contract has been entered into by a competent party, and the nature and circumstances are unobjectionable, it is as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree a specific performance, as it is to give damages at law. (White v. Daman, 7 Ves. 30 ; Hail T. Warren,... | |
 | William Hughes - Conveyancing - 1847 - 448 pages
...contract has been entered into by a competent party, and the nature and circumstances are unobjectionable, it is as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree a specific performance, as it is to give damages at law. (White v. Damm, 7 Ves. 30 ; Hall t. Warren,... | |
 | William Hughes - Conveyancing - 1850 - 666 pages
...has been entered into by a competent party, and the nature and the circumstances are unobjectionable, it is as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree specific performance, as it is to give damages at law: (White v. Damon, 7 Ves. 30; Hall v. . . j -... | |
 | Civil procedure - 1857 - 610 pages
...certain, and fair in all its parts, is for an adequate consideration, and capable of being performed, it is as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree a specific performance, as for a court of law to give damages for a breach of it. Indeed the cases... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...is not lost, complete justice cannot be done without a spe cific execution. And it has been almost as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree a specific execution of a contract for the purchase of lands, where in its nature and circumstances... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 682 pages
...But " where a contract respecting real property is, in its nature and circumstances, unobjectionable, it is as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree a specific performance of it, as it is for a court of law to give damages for the breach of it." ยง... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - Real property - 1868 - 670 pages
...if the contract be free from imposition, is not l Keen v. Stuckely, Gilb. Eq. 155. being performed, it is as much a matter of course for a Court of Equity to decree a specific performance, as for a Court of Law to give damages for a breach of it. Indeed, the cases... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...fair in all its parts, is for an adequate consideration and capable of being performed, it is just as much a matter of course for a court of equity to...its specific performance as for a court of law to give damages for its breach. Upon a sule at auction the statute declares that the auctioneer is the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...a contract for the conveyance of lands was in its nature and circumstances unobjectionable, it was as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree its specific performance, as it was for a court of law to give damages for its breach. That the money payable by Willard to Tayloe... | |
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... it is as much a matter of course for a court of equity to decree its specific performance as it is for a court of law to give damages for its breach. 
