Goods Price Trigger
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
17450_tutor-statute-frauds · CONTRACTS · Choice AThe contract was required to be in writing if the practice materials that would have been provided had a price in excess of $500.
Why it's attractive
This choice states a real rule (goods >$500 must be in writing) but applies it to the wrong type of contract. The threshold question — is this a goods contract? — is missing.
Why it's wrong
This choice states a real rule (goods >$500 must be in writing) but applies it to the wrong type of contract. The threshold question — is this a goods contract? — is missing.
17450_tutor-statute-frauds · CONTRACTS · Choice BThe contract was required to be in writing if, at the time of contracting, the parties intended that the practice materials would have a price in excess of $500.
Why it's attractive
This choice adds an intent element that sounds reasonable but is legally irrelevant. The SoF doesn't ask what the parties intended about materials — it asks what kind of contract this is.
Why it's wrong
This choice adds an intent element that sounds reasonable but is legally irrelevant. The SoF doesn't ask what the parties intended about materials — it asks what kind of contract this is.
17450_tutor-statute-frauds · CONTRACTS · Choice DThe contract was required to be in writing if the practice materials that would have been provided had a price in excess of $500, and the parties intended that the materials would have a price in excess of $500 at the time of contracting.
Why it's attractive
This choice stacks two conditions (actual price + intent) but both are built on the same false premise: that the SoF applies to this contract at all.
Why it's wrong
This choice stacks two conditions (actual price + intent) but both are built on the same false premise: that the SoF applies to this contract at all.
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