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All Prior Oral Agreements Are Barred

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

  • 19921_cedar_reading_alcove_loan · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because an agreement modifying a service contract may be made orally.

    Why it's attractive

    The stem says the oral agreement happened before signing, while modification changes a contract after it exists.

    Why it's wrong

    The stem says the oral agreement happened before signing, while modification changes a contract after it exists.

  • 19921_cedar_reading_alcove_loan · CONTRACTS · Choice BNo, because Lydia is estopped from denying the validity of the written agreement.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer adds an estoppel bar the stem never sets up.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer adds an estoppel bar the stem never sets up.

  • 19921_cedar_reading_alcove_loan · CONTRACTS · Choice CNo, because the loan arrangement was an oral agreement made before the writing and it contradicts the writing's terms.

    Why it's attractive

    It states the familiar bar but misses that the evidence is offered to show no effective contract.

    Why it's wrong

    It states the familiar bar but misses that the evidence is offered to show no effective contract.

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