Specific Performance Barred by Subsequent Good Faith Sale
Synthèse Legislator
Généré par l'IAA party contracted to sell a property with an attached plot of land, and later sold the property separately to a third party without including the plot as stipulated in the initial contract; the court of cassation quashed the lower court's decision which had ordered the specific execution of the first contract, reasoning that the subsequent sale of the property rendered the specific performance of the earlier agreement to sell the entire property, including the plot, impossible to fulfill against the third-party purchaser who had acted in good faith.
Regeste Legislator
Généré par l'IASpecific Performance Barred by Subsequent Good Faith Sale: A party contracted to sell a property with an attached plot of land, and later sold the property separately to a third party without including the plot as stipulated in the initial contract; the court of cassation quashed the lower court's decision which had ordered the specific execution of the first contract, reasoning that the subsequent sale of the property rendered the specific performance of the earlier agreement to sell the entire property, including the plot, impossible to fulfill against the third-party purchaser who had acted in good faith.