False Pretenses Misfit
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
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
18747_vintage_bible_embezzlement · CRIMINAL · Choice ALarceny, because every wrongful taking of property is larceny.
Why it's attractive
Larceny requires a trespassory taking — a wrongful caption at the outset — and here Stephen's possession was lawful.
Why it's wrong
Larceny requires a trespassory taking — a wrongful caption at the outset — and here Stephen's possession was lawful.
18747_vintage_bible_embezzlement · CRIMINAL · Choice BNo offense, because Timothy voluntarily handed over the Bible.
Why it's attractive
Consent to entrust property for one purpose does not authorize fraudulent conversion to a different purpose.
Why it's wrong
Consent to entrust property for one purpose does not authorize fraudulent conversion to a different purpose.
18747_vintage_bible_embezzlement · CRIMINAL · Choice DFalse pretenses, because Stephen sold the Bible to someone else.
Why it's attractive
False pretenses requires a false representation of a material fact that induces the victim to pass title; here Stephen never made a false representation to Timothy, and Timothy did not pass title.
Why it's wrong
False pretenses requires a false representation of a material fact that induces the victim to pass title; here Stephen never made a false representation to Timothy, and Timothy did not pass title.
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