Absolute Overclaim Bolting
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Real Property1
Example wrong choices
20149_chandlers_vats · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice ABarnabas owns the vats because any bolted item automatically becomes a fixture.
Why it's attractive
The word 'automatically' is a structural overclaim tell; stem fact ('removable without substantial injury') directly contradicts the absolute. Silver Key SK-REALPROP-TRADE-FIXTURE-01 activates.
Why it's wrong
The word 'automatically' is a structural overclaim tell; stem fact ('removable without substantial injury') directly contradicts the absolute. Silver Key SK-REALPROP-TRADE-FIXTURE-01 activates.
20149_chandlers_vats · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice BLydia may remove the vats only if the lease expressly used the words 'trade fixture.'
Why it's attractive
The trade fixture doctrine applies from facts, not from lease language. No authority requires the lease to say 'trade fixture.' Gold Key GK-REALPROP-TRADE-FIXTURE-01 kills this choice.
Why it's wrong
The trade fixture doctrine applies from facts, not from lease language. No authority requires the lease to say 'trade fixture.' Gold Key GK-REALPROP-TRADE-FIXTURE-01 kills this choice.
20149_chandlers_vats · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice DBarnabas owns the vats because trade fixtures installed by a tenant can never be removed.
Why it's attractive
The trade fixture exception exists precisely because such items CAN be removed. 'Can never' is a structural tell that inverts the doctrine. Gold Key GK-REALPROP-TRADE-FIXTURE-01 kills this choice.
Why it's wrong
The trade fixture exception exists precisely because such items CAN be removed. 'Can never' is a structural tell that inverts the doctrine. Gold Key GK-REALPROP-TRADE-FIXTURE-01 kills this choice.
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