Price v Strange

Subject Matter

SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE — Mutuality — Time for determination — Oral agreement to grant underlease in return for carrying out repairs — Repudiation after repairs partially completed — Action for specific performance of grant of underlease — Defence of lack of mutuality — Whether appropriate time for determining existence of mutuality date of contract or hearing — Whether “jurisdiction to entertain an application … for the specific performance” — Whether discretion to award damages — Chancery Amendment Act 1858, s 2

[1978] Ch 337; [1977] 3 WLR 943