be recorded as parts of the instruments, just as the registrar was obliged to record them prior to the enactment of Act No. 23. Jefferies v. East Omaha Land Co., 134 U.S. 178, 10 Sup.Ct. 518, 33 L.Ed. 872; Morgan et al. v. Moore, 69 Mass. 319; Hutchcraft v. Lutwig et al., 13 Wash. 240, 43 P. 29; Davis v. Rainsford, 17 Mass. 207; Warville on Abstracts, p. 161; Lunt v. Holland, 14 Mass. 149. We perceive no repugnancy between the general laws of the territory, relating to conveyances, and Act No. 23, affecting the questions involved in this case.
, Kentucky precedent indicates it is just as appropriate to award specific performance as an equitable remedy as it is to award monetary damages as a legal remedy for a breach of contract. See Morgan v. Wible, 314 Ky. 564, 568-69, 236 S.W.2d 472, 474 (1951) ("While the remedy of specific performance is one which rests within the discretion of the chancellor, yet whenever the contract concerns real estate, is certain in its terms and is capable of being enforced without hardship to either party, it is as much a matter of course for the chancellor to decree specific performance as for a court of law to award damages for its breach."). Thus, without finding the terms of the Vacant Land Contract to be unjust or the effect of specific performance to cause hardship, the trial court abused its discretion in denying specific performance of the contract negotiated between the two parties here.
West Ky. Coal Co. v. Nourse, 320 S.W.2d 311, 314 (Ky. 1959). The trial court awarded specific performance to the Irvins in reliance on Morgan v. Wible, 236 S.W.2d 472 (Ky. 1951): The trial court in its order and the Irvins in their brief refer to this case as Wible v. Moore. It also pieced together quotes from the case out of order.