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.
More On This Day. David Ben-Gurion, Israel's New Premier, standing with an Israeli official who holds the signed document proclaiming the Establishment of the Jewish State of Israel. On This Day: Israel Becomes a Nation. On May 14, 1948, the Jewish Peopleâs Council met at the Tel Aviv Museum and announced the creation of the state of Israel. New State Immediately Challenged. Britain seized control Palestine in 1917 and was granted mandate over the area by the League of Nations in 1922.