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  "heading": "Sale of a thing and deposit of proceeds",
  "text": "If performance consists of the delivery of a perishable thing, or of a thing whose deposit and custody are excessively costly in proportion to its value, the court may order the sale of the thing under the conditions that it may direct, and the deposit of the proceeds.",
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