The following obligations cannot be specifically enforced:

(a) An obligation to render personal service.

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Terms Used In California Civil Code 3390

  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • spouse: includes a registered domestic partner, as required by §. See California Civil Code 14

(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.)