California Codes, Civil Code - CIV, Division 4 — General Provisions, Part 1 — Relief, Title 3 — Specific and Preventive Relief, Chapter 2 — Specific Relief, Article 3 — Specific Performance of Obligations, Section 3390
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.
Notes
Bars specific enforcement of obligations to render personal service, employ another in personal service, perform an act the party cannot lawfully perform when required, procure a spouse’s or third person’s act or consent, or perform an agreement whose terms are too uncertain to identify clearly the precise act required.
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