Moreover, personal performance contracts bind a specific individual, but not heirs or assignees, because there is no adequate substitute. The origins of these contracts are from life insurance contracts. There are many types of contracts, but rescuing someone’s mom from the Devil takes specific performance to a new level (or low in going to Hell).Īn “adhesion contract” is a type of contract that one party has no choice as to the terms and “adheres” to the agreement. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a “ boon” as “something pleasant or helpful : a benefit or advantage.”ĭoctor Strange was bound to no ordinary boon, but an adhesion contract for his personal performance for a rescue mission from Hell. Doctor Doom’s boon was for Doctor Strange to help Doom liberate his mother from Hell.Ī “boon” historically was “Unpaid services, rendered in kind or labor, without being fixed in amount or time, that some tenants owed to the landowner as a condition of tenancy.” See, Black’s Law Dictionary, 9 th Edition.
The Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom graphic novel Triumph and Torment presented a complex legal issue: Doctor Strange owed Doctor Doom a “boon” for surviving a mystical challenge.
