Specific Performance

The actual accomplishment of a contract by the party bound to fulfill it. An equitable remedy to compel the precise or substantial performance of a contract. The right to the remedy was in its origin dependent on the inadequacy of the legal remedy by suit for damages, but this rule has been very much relaxed.

2 N. Y. 60; 7 111. 327.

SPECIFICATIO (Lat.) In civil law. The process by which, from material either of one kind or different kinds, either belonging to the person using them or to another, a new form or thing is created; as, if from gold or gold and silver a cup be made, or from grapes' wine. Calv. Lex. Whether the property in the new article was in the owner of the materials, or in him who effected the change, was a matter of contest between the two great sects of Roman