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Contractor Must Complete Before Suing

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

  • 19029_prayer_path_progress_payment · CONTRACTS · Choice ATimothy may not sue Martha for breach of contract until he completes construction of the entry arch.

    Why it's attractive

    This choice invents a completion-before-suit requirement after the owner has already refused a due progress payment.

    Why it's wrong

    This choice invents a completion-before-suit requirement after the owner has already refused a due progress payment.

  • 19029_prayer_path_progress_payment · CONTRACTS · Choice CTimothy is entitled to damages limited to the sum of $32,000.

    Why it's attractive

    The word 'limited' overclaims because the stem does not say Timothy has no other loss.

    Why it's wrong

    The word 'limited' overclaims because the stem does not say Timothy has no other loss.

  • 19029_prayer_path_progress_payment · CONTRACTS · Choice DTimothy is entitled to damages in the sum of $64,000.

    Why it's attractive

    The stem gives no cost-to-complete facts, so the whole unpaid balance cannot be selected as a fixed damages sum.

    Why it's wrong

    The stem gives no cost-to-complete facts, so the whole unpaid balance cannot be selected as a fixed damages sum.

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