to compel performance

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• compel — com|pel [kəmˈpel] v past tense and past participle compelled present participle compelling [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: compellere, from com ( COM ) + pellere to drive ] 1.) to force someone to do something →↑compulsion compel sb to do… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• specific performance — see performance Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. specific performance …   Law dictionary

• musical performance — Introduction       step in the musical process during which musical ideas are realized and transmitted to a listener. In Western music, performance is most commonly viewed as an interpretive art, though it is not always merely that. A performer… …   Universalium

• bill for specific performance — A bill in equity to compel the actual accomplishment of a contract by the party bound to fulfil it, a means of compelling the party to do precisely what he ought to have done without being coerced by a court. See 49 Am J1st Spec Per §§ 2, 159 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• mandamus — /maendeymas/ We command. This is the name of a writ (formerly a high prerogative writ) which issues from a court of superior jurisdiction, and is directed to a private or municipal corporation, or any of its officers, or to an executive,… …   Black's law dictionary

• mandamus — /maendeymas/ We command. This is the name of a writ (formerly a high prerogative writ) which issues from a court of superior jurisdiction, and is directed to a private or municipal corporation, or any of its officers, or to an executive,… …   Black's law dictionary

• Breach of contract — Contract law Part …   Wikipedia

• mutuality of remedy — Each party to a bilateral contract having the opportunity to compel performance of the promise to him. Philadelphia Ball Club v Lajoie, 202 Pa 210, 51 A 973. A doctrine asserted in cases of specific performance. The availability to both parties… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• lien — / lēn/ n [Anglo French, bond, obligation, literally, tie, band, from Old French, from Latin ligamen, from ligare to bind]: a charge or encumbrance upon property for the satisfaction of a debt or other duty that is created by agreement of the… …   Law dictionary

• adequate remedy at law — For purposes of rule that a litigant who fails to avail himself of a remedy provided by law and who is subsequently barred from pursuing that remedy because of his own lack of diligence cannot rely on the absence of a remedy at law as a basis for …   Black's law dictionary

• adequate remedy at law — For purposes of rule that a litigant who fails to avail himself of a remedy provided by law and who is subsequently barred from pursuing that remedy because of his own lack of diligence cannot rely on the absence of a remedy at law as a basis for …   Black's law dictionary