Specific performance grants the plaintiff what he actually bargained for in the contract rather than damages (pecuniary compensation for loss or injury incurred through the unlawful conduct of another) for not receiving it; thus specific performance is an equitable rather than legal remedy.
The Balfour Declaration was a November 2, 1917 letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration led the League of Nations to entrust the United Kingdom with the Palestine Mandate in 1922.
1 President Wilson's Fourteen Points from the World War I Document Archive. 2  Wilson's shorthand notes from the Library of Congress. 3  Arthur Balfour's speech on the Fourteen Points to Parliament, on 27 February 1918 â firstworldwar.com. 4  Woodrow Wilson Library Wilson's Noble Peace Prize is digitized. President Wilson's Fourteen Points from the World War I Document Archive. 2  Wilson's shorthand notes from the Library of Congress. 3  Arthur Balfour's speech on the Fourteen Points to Parliament, on 27 February 1918 â firstworldwar.com. 4  Woodrow Wilson Library Wilson's Noble Peace Prize is digitized.