DIVISION 4. GENERAL PROVISIONS 3274-9566›PART 1. RELIEF 3274-3428›TITLE 3. SPECIFIC AND PREVENTIVE RELIEF 3366-3424›CHAPTER 2. Specific Relief 3375-3415›ARTICLE 3. Specific Performance of Obligations [[3384.] - 3395.]
§ 3390
California Civil Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
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.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 50, Sec. 12. (SB 1005) Effective January 1, 2017.)
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