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Specific Performance - Chattel Contracts Performable In Installments
Specific Performance - Chattel Contracts Performable In Installments
Michigan Law Review
The refusal of a court of equity to decree the performance of a contract relating to personalty is not based on any intrinsic. difference between land and chattels. Any distinction between them is entirely subordinate to the question whether an adequate remedy can be afforded at law. Yet constant repetition has imparted such a degree of rigidity to the rule that courts have been prone to forget the reason on which it rests. Nowhere is this fact more evident than in the field of installment contracts.
Quasi-Contracts -Assumpsit For Use And Occupation Against A Trespasser In Modern Cases
Quasi-Contracts -Assumpsit For Use And Occupation Against A Trespasser In Modern Cases
Michigan Law Review
Perhaps the doctrine of stare decisis is sometimes deserving of severe criticism in its application to matters of substantive law; but the unfortunate results of uncritical adherence to precedent appear most clearly in regard to rules of procedure, where the demand for certainty cannot be justified by a supposed reliance of laymen on "settled" rules. The evils are aggravated where inconvenient decisions are not undermined or their effects evaded by the lawyer's typical process of "distinguishing'' cases. A forcible illustration is the firm refusal of most courts to extend quasicontractual relief to cases of use and occupation of land by …