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After The Fact Value Trap

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

  • Contracts1

Example wrong choices

  • 14451_psalm_trail_quitclaim · CONTRACTS · Choice Alose, because Barnabas suffered no legal detriment in executing the quitclaim deed.

    Why it's attractive

    The choice denies value to the exact act Lydia requested.

    Why it's wrong

    The choice denies value to the exact act Lydia requested.

  • 14451_psalm_trail_quitclaim · CONTRACTS · Choice Blose, because Barnabas knew before the agreement with Lydia that his claimed access right was doubtful.

    Why it's attractive

    The choice points the Gold Key backward: doubt is treated as the reason the bargain fails.

    Why it's wrong

    The choice points the Gold Key backward: doubt is treated as the reason the bargain fails.

  • 14451_psalm_trail_quitclaim · CONTRACTS · Choice Cwin, because Lydia, by paying the first $1,500 installment, is estopped to deny that her agreement with Barnabas is an enforceable contract.

    Why it's attractive

    This choice reaches for a substitute theory after the bargain itself supplies the answer.

    Why it's wrong

    This choice reaches for a substitute theory after the bargain itself supplies the answer.

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