Leasehold Not Property
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
- Real Property1
Example wrong choices
20729_courtyard_stormwater · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice ATimothy is entitled to a share of the condemnation award based on the value of the unexpired term of the leasehold less the rent that would have become due during that term.
Why it's attractive
This choice sells the constitutional-compensation half, which sounds like the whole eminent-domain answer. The breaker is that the tenant also stops owing future rent, so the award-only statement is incomplete.
Why it's wrong
Award-only answer. It omits the future-rent consequence.
Spot it next time
When the array offers X-only, Y-only, and X-plus-Y, test both components before choosing.
20729_courtyard_stormwater · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice BTimothy may continue to use the courtyard for the balance of the term unless his leasehold interest was specifically named in the condemnation award.
Why it's attractive
This choice sells a formal-document trap by making the condemnation award sound controlling. The breaker is the Gold Key: a total taking reaches the leasehold whether or not the award names it separately.
Why it's wrong
It invents a requirement that the leasehold be specifically named before the taking reaches the tenant.
Spot it next time
Recall that total taking of the parcel includes the leasehold.
20729_courtyard_stormwater · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice DTimothy is freed of the obligation to pay rent for the balance of the term.
Why it's attractive
This choice sells the intuitive landlord-tenant half, because no rent after total ouster feels complete. The breaker is that the leasehold itself is also compensable, so the rent-only statement is incomplete.
Why it's wrong
Rent-only answer. It omits the compensation consequence.
Spot it next time
Add the leasehold-value compensation consequence when the entire leasehold is taken.
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