All Failed Specific Devises Are Ademption
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
15049_emmaus_recording_loft · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice ARuth, because extrinsic evidence shows that Matthew's purpose was to support Ruth's care.
Why it's attractive
The answer turns evidence of Matthew's purpose into a new devise to Ruth, but the will named Lydia.
Why it's wrong
The answer turns evidence of Matthew's purpose into a new devise to Ruth, but the will named Lydia.
15049_emmaus_recording_loft · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice BRuth, because Matthew's will did not say that Lydia had to survive him.
Why it's attractive
The answer treats silence as saving the gift, but silence leaves no living named taker.
Why it's wrong
The answer treats silence as saving the gift, but silence leaves no living named taker.
15049_emmaus_recording_loft · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CThe Emmaus Literacy Mission, because the devise to Lydia adeemed.
Why it's attractive
The answer names a will doctrine but points to the wrong failure. The loft remained available; Lydia did not.
Why it's wrong
The answer names a will doctrine but points to the wrong failure. The loft remained available; Lydia did not.
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