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.
This essay examines how British policy with regard to the ânational home. for the Jewish peopleâ evolved between November 1917 and July 1922, and the stages by which the. Mandate commitments were reached. In the discussions on the eve of the Balfour Declaration, the British War Cabinet, desperate to. persuade the Jews of Russia to urge their government to renew Russiaâs war effort, saw Palestine. as a Jewish rallying cry. To this end, those advising the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Secretary.