Dominant Trade Usage Trap
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
14416_worship_sound_booth · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because the professional sound-trade usage will control the meaning of "daily booth checks."
Why it's attractive
Clear trade-usage evidence is bait unless both sides knew or should have known the usage.
Why it's wrong
Clear trade-usage evidence is bait unless both sides knew or should have known the usage.
14416_worship_sound_booth · CONTRACTS · Choice BYes, because the parol evidence rule prevents Lydia from proving the meaning she attached to "daily booth checks."
Why it's attractive
The evidence explains the written phrase; it does not add a new inconsistent promise.
Why it's wrong
The evidence explains the written phrase; it does not add a new inconsistent promise.
14416_worship_sound_booth · CONTRACTS · Choice DNo, because the parties attached materially different meanings to "daily booth checks," so no contract was formed.
Why it's attractive
Different meanings alone are not enough once the stem tells you one side knew about the mismatch.
Why it's wrong
Different meanings alone are not enough once the stem tells you one side knew about the mismatch.
Practice the questions that use this trap as a distractor and get full Wrong Answer Forensics on submit.
Practice questions using this trap →