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Buyer Gets Market Value After Any Loss

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

  • 14481_ruth_nativity_music_box · CONTRACTS · Choice AOnly Ruth's claim for the contract price will succeed.

    Why it's attractive

    This answer makes the buyer pay even though the stem says risk had not passed to him.

    Why it's wrong

    This answer makes the buyer pay even though the stem says risk had not passed to him.

  • 14481_ruth_nativity_music_box · CONTRACTS · Choice BOnly Stephen's counterclaim for the music box's market value will succeed.

    Why it's attractive

    This answer notices appreciation but skips the no-fault casualty rule and the no-breach posture.

    Why it's wrong

    This answer notices appreciation but skips the no-fault casualty rule and the no-breach posture.

  • 14481_ruth_nativity_music_box · CONTRACTS · Choice DBoth claims will succeed, and Stephen will recover $6,000.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer nets both claims, but the rule leaves no contract claims to net.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer nets both claims, but the rule leaves no contract claims to net.

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