Attempts to allow the promisee to enforce the contract on behalf of the third party

Specific performance. In Beswick v Beswick (1968), Peter Beswick had transferred his business to his nephew, in return for his nephew’s promise to pay his uncle a pension and, after his death, an annuity to his widow. The nephew paid his uncle the pension, but only one payment of the annuity was made. The widow, as administratrix of her husband’s estate, successfully sued her nephew for specific performance of the contract to pay the annuity, although the House of Lords implied that she would not have succeeded if she had been suing in her own right.