Agreement Words Equal Acceptance
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
21879_noahs_ark_puppet_set · CONTRACTS · Choice Aa ratification of Lydia’s earlier acceptance of Peter’s sale offer.
Why it's attractive
The word ratification sounds like a sophisticated way to validate the earlier exchange. The breaker is that no earlier acceptance existed to ratify.
Why it's wrong
It assumes an earlier acceptance existed, but the earlier letter required delivery.
Spot it next time
Mark the earlier letter as delivery-conditioned before labeling Peter’s later statement.
21879_noahs_ark_puppet_set · CONTRACTS · Choice Bcommencement of performance.
Why it's attractive
Peter talks about the transport step, so the answer feels tied to action. The breaker is that he has not delivered, tendered, or begun delivering yet.
Why it's wrong
A future promise to bring the goods is not present commencement of performance.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the goods were delivered, tendered, or physically being brought.
21879_noahs_ark_puppet_set · CONTRACTS · Choice Dan acceptance.
Why it's attractive
Peter’s words sound like agreement, so students call them acceptance. The breaker is that the invited acceptance was delivery, not a promise to deliver later.
Why it's wrong
The statement promises later delivery; it is not the delivery-conditioned acceptance.
Spot it next time
Ask what the buyer invited as the accepting act.
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