Impossibility Required For Discharge
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
20569_ark_float · CONTRACTS · Choice ALydia breached unless the city engineer’s order made use of the float impossible.
Why it's attractive
The student reaches for impossibility because it sounds like a familiar excuse doctrine. The breaker is that the contract already named a different terminating event.
Why it's wrong
This choice replaces the contract's below-threshold order trigger with impossibility.
Spot it next time
Ask: what event did the contract itself say would end the rental?
20569_ark_float · CONTRACTS · Choice CRuth may compel delivery of the float because substantial performance of the parade plan is enough.
Why it's attractive
The student reaches for substantial performance because it sounds like a forgiving contracts rule. The breaker is that Ruth's performance plan does not decide Lydia's duty after the stated condition occurred.
Why it's wrong
This choice replaces the duty-discharge question with substantial performance of the parade plan.
Spot it next time
Return to Lydia's duty to provide the float after the order.
20569_ark_float · CONTRACTS · Choice DLydia breached because the float rental was already effective when signed.
Why it's attractive
The student sees that the rental was effective at signing and treats that as enough. The breaker is that the later 'unless' event is the dispositive fact.
Why it's wrong
This choice answers whether the rental was initially effective, not what happened after the later trigger.
Spot it next time
Continue from signing to the later city-engineer order.
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