Keenan v Handley: 1864

References: 1864 12 WR 1021
Ratio: The court considered the availability of specific performance as a remedy to a personal representative.
This case is cited by:

• Cited – Beswick v Beswick HL ([1968] AC 58, [1967] 3 WLR 932, [1967] 2 All ER 1197 HL(E), Bailii, [1967] UKHL 2)
  The deceased had assigned his coal merchant business to the respondent against a promise to pay andpound;5.00 a week to his widow whilst she lived. The respondent appealed an order requiring him to make the payments, saying that as a consolidating . .

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