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Cal. Civ. Code § 3390

Specific Performance of Obligations [[3384.] - 3395.]

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 244 Cal. App. 4th 118 - Lewis v. Youtube, LLC (2016)

Most recently applied in J.B.B. Inv. Partners Ltd. v. Fair (June 2019)

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 12

The following obligations cannot be specifically enforced:

(a) An obligation to render personal service.

(b) An obligation to employ another in personal service.

(c) An agreement to perform an act which the party has not power lawfully to perform when required to do so.

(d) An agreement to procure the act or consent of the spouse of the contracting party, or of any other third person.

(e) An agreement, the terms of which are not sufficiently certain to make the precise act which is to be done clearly ascertainable.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.