Auction Required For New Land
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.”
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- Real Property1
Example wrong choices
20213_mercy_pool_reliction · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice ANo private owner, because exposed land created by reliction must be auctioned before anyone owns it.
Why it's attractive
The answer sounds official because an auction feels like a clean way to allocate newly exposed land. The breaker is that the auction step is not the usual reliction rule.
Why it's wrong
The auction step is invented and fails once the reliction anchor is applied.
Spot it next time
Cut added procedures that are not part of the reliction anchor.
20213_mercy_pool_reliction · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CThe state, because all land once covered by Mercy Pool remains public forever.
Why it's attractive
The answer leans on the public-water instinct and sounds safe because the land was once under water. The breaker is the all/forever overclaim, which the reliction anchor defeats.
Why it's wrong
The all/forever wording overclaims and the reliction anchor supplies the exception.
Spot it next time
Treat all/forever as an overclaim and apply the reliction Gold Key.
20213_mercy_pool_reliction · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice DBarnabas, because Mercy Pool receded in the direction of his far-side land.
Why it's attractive
The answer gives Barnabas a plausible directional story because the water retreated toward the far side. The breaker is that ownership follows adjacency to the exposed land, not the direction of retreat.
Why it's wrong
The choice uses direction of recession instead of adjacency to the exposed strip.
Spot it next time
Ask which parcel adjoins the exposed strip.
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