Illness Excuses Contract Performance
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
17037_v1 · CONTRACTS · Choice ALydia is entitled to a judgment for specific performance because every musical instrument is unique.
Why it's attractive
The choice correctly identifies that unique items support specific performance, but misdirects the remedy to the seller instead of the buyer.
Why it's wrong
The choice correctly identifies that unique items support specific performance, but misdirects the remedy to the seller instead of the buyer.
17037_v1 · CONTRACTS · Choice BTimothy is excused from performance because of impossibility.
Why it's attractive
Timothy's illness, while tragic, is a foreseeable life risk and does not constitute legal impossibility.
Why it's wrong
Timothy's illness, while tragic, is a foreseeable life risk and does not constitute legal impossibility.
17037_v1 · CONTRACTS · Choice DLydia is entitled to a judgment for damages resulting from Timothy's refusal to complete the transaction, and she is also entitled to specific performance, because every musical instrument is unique.
Why it's attractive
The damages portion is correct, but the specific-performance portion repeats the same error as Choice A.
Why it's wrong
The damages portion is correct, but the specific-performance portion repeats the same error as Choice A.
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