Legal Efficacy Gate
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
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
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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