Your &quot;legal analysis&quot; is woefully lacking.  Have you, for example, ever glanced at a Contracts Law text book?  Or read the Wikipedia articles about contract law? Heck, have you even watched The People&#x27;s Court?  Just you sitting in your armchair and coming up with something that seems reasonable in your mind does not a legal argument make, or refute.<p>As far as profiting from hypothetical things that never happened, see Joe Jamail:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasmonthly.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-man-who-crushed-texaco&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.texasmonthly.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-man-who-crushed-tex...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Specific_performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Specific_performance</a>