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Specific Performance-Scarcity As Justification For Specific Performance Of Contract For Purchase Of New Car, Richard H. Conn May 1949

Specific Performance-Scarcity As Justification For Specific Performance Of Contract For Purchase Of New Car, Richard H. Conn

Michigan Law Review

In two recent cases, prospective purchasers entered into written contracts with local automobile distributors for the purchase of new cars. Because of the scarcity of new cars, the prospective purchasers' names were put on waiting lists establishing a priority for delivery as new cars were received by the distributors. In both cases the distributors refused without excuse to perform when cars became available for delivery. The prospective purchasers sought specific performance on the basis that the current scarcity of new cars and the difficulty of obtaining them elsewhere for cash alone made the legal damage remedy inadequate. Held, (a) …


A Treatise On The Law Of Sale Of Personal Property, Volume I, Floyd R. Mechem Jan 1901

A Treatise On The Law Of Sale Of Personal Property, Volume I, Floyd R. Mechem

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When this task was undertaken the writer believed that there was a real need for an American book upon the law of Sale. In the long time that he bas been at work, various contributions to the subject have been made by others, so that it is possible that the need, if it ever existed, has long since been supplied. The writer, however, whether wisely or unwisely, has persisted in his undertaking, and if bis work shall prove to have a value in some degree commensurate with the labor spent upon it, he will be content.


A Treatise On The Law Of Sale Of Personal Property, Volume Ii, Floyd R. Mechem Jan 1901

A Treatise On The Law Of Sale Of Personal Property, Volume Ii, Floyd R. Mechem

Books

When this task was undertaken the writer believed that there was a real need for an American book upon the law of Sale. In the long time that he bas been at work, various contributions to the subject have been made by others, so that it is possible that the need, if it ever existed, has long since been supplied. The writer, however, whether wisely or unwisely, has persisted in his undertaking, and if bis work shall prove to have a value in some degree commensurate with the labor spent upon it, he will be content.