Section 21-9-2 - Obligations and agreements not specifically enforceable The following obligations cannot be specifically enforced:
(1) An obligation to render personal service;(2) An obligation to employ another in personal service;(3) An agreement to submit a controversy to arbitration except as authorized in the Uniform Arbitration Act;(4) An agreement to perform an act which the party has not power lawfully to perform when required to do so;(5) An agreement to procure the act or consent of the spouse of the contracting party, or of any other third person;(6) An agreement, the terms of which are not sufficiently certain, to make the precise act which is to be done clearly ascertainable. CivC 1877, § 1999; CL 1887, § 4632; RCivC 1903, § 2344; RC 1919, § 2015; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.4602; SL 1971, ch 157, § 26; SL 1979, ch 149, § 11.