Gold Key Required
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 2 active questions. 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
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
14525_jonah_fish_escape · CONTRACTS · Choice Areversed, because the test for limiting damages is what the breaching party could reasonably have foreseen at the time of the breach.
Why it's attractive
The choice reverses but attacks foreseeability at breach, while the quoted defect is the categorical new-business-profit bar.
Why it's wrong
The choice reverses but attacks foreseeability at breach, while the quoted defect is the categorical new-business-profit bar.
14525_jonah_fish_escape · CONTRACTS · Choice Caffirmed, because the trial court stated the law correctly.
Why it's attractive
Gold Key kills it: the instruction's categorical bar is not the modern rule.
Why it's wrong
Gold Key kills it: the instruction's categorical bar is not the modern rule.
14525_jonah_fish_escape · CONTRACTS · Choice Daffirmed, because the issue of damages for breach of contract was solely a jury question.
Why it's attractive
The word 'solely' is the tell; damages can have jury fact issues, but legal instructions are reviewable.
Why it's wrong
The word 'solely' is the tell; damages can have jury fact issues, but legal instructions are reviewable.
14725_lydias_hymn_leaf · CRIMINAL · Choice Bcommitted forgery, because she created a false writing with intent to defraud, but has not committed false pretenses, because she refused to guarantee authenticity.
Why it's attractive
It hears fake writing and disclaimer, but skips legal efficacy and the source lie.
Why it's wrong
It hears fake writing and disclaimer, but skips legal efficacy and the source lie.
14725_lydias_hymn_leaf · CRIMINAL · Choice Cnot committed forgery, because the devotional page had no apparent legal significance, and has not committed false pretenses, because she refused to guarantee authenticity.
Why it's attractive
It treats no authenticity guarantee as the only fraud fact, but the stem supplies a source lie.
Why it's wrong
It treats no authenticity guarantee as the only fraud fact, but the stem supplies a source lie.
14725_lydias_hymn_leaf · CRIMINAL · Choice Dcommitted both forgery and false pretenses.
Why it's attractive
It gets the fraud sale but lets fake writing plus intent overrun the legal-efficacy gate.
Why it's wrong
It gets the fraud sale but lets fake writing plus intent overrun the legal-efficacy gate.
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