What are the elements required to establish a cause of action for quasi-specific performance of an oral contract?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Kennedy v. Bank of America, 237 Cal.App.2d 637, 47 Cal.Rptr. 154 (Cal. App. 1965):

The elements requisite to stating a cause of action for quasi-specific performance of an oral contract such as that here involved are well laid out in Walker v. Calloway, 99 Cal.App.2d 675, at page 681, 222 P.2d 455, at page 459, where it is said:

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