Specific Performance in German, French and Dutch Law in the Nineteenth Century

This study pertains to Dutch law, and the author explains in his introduction that it addresses two central questions: "First, under what circumstances is a creditor legally entitled to seek specific performance of an obligation? Second, in which situations will a creditor opt to plead the remedy of specific performance in preference to another available remedy? Oosterhuis offers thorough treatment in this second volume in the series "Studies in the History of Private Law." Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Janwillem Oosterhuis, PhD (2011) in Law, VU University Amsterdam, is Lecturer in Legal History at Maastricht University. He has published previously on the history of the law of obligations, e.g. Industrialization and Specific Performance in the German Territories during the 19th Century (Intersentia, 2010).