Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to abridge the powers of courts to compel the specific performance of agreements in case of part performance thereof.
Utah Code § 25-5-8
Right to specific performance not affected
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Spears v. Warr (2002)
Most recently applied in Verdi Energy Group, Inc v. Nelson (May 2014)
No Change Since 1953
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.