Contract Formality Red Herring
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
22589_concert-ad-frustration · CONTRACTS · Choice ANo, because the contract did not specifically state the advertisement would run during the concert.
Why it's attractive
Performance is literally possible; impossibility requires the duty itself cannot be performed
Why it's wrong
Performance is literally possible; impossibility requires the duty itself cannot be performed
22589_concert-ad-frustration · CONTRACTS · Choice CYes, because there was nothing preventing the network from running the advertisement at the agreed time.
Why it's attractive
The ad can air, but the question is whether the purpose survives — it doesn't
Why it's wrong
The ad can air, but the question is whether the purpose survives — it doesn't
22589_concert-ad-frustration · CONTRACTS · Choice DYes, since the understanding that the ad would run during the concert was not in the written contract.
Why it's attractive
Frustration of purpose looks to basic assumptions, not just the written contract
Why it's wrong
Frustration of purpose looks to basic assumptions, not just the written contract
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