Tenant Possession Creates A Special Exception
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
14932_cedarbrook_scripture_studio · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice AMartha, subject to returning the $18,000, because Timothy's arrangement remained a month-to-month tenancy.
Why it's attractive
It uses rent-looking facts but does not answer the owner-like part-performance facts.
Why it's wrong
It uses rent-looking facts but does not answer the owner-like part-performance facts.
14932_cedarbrook_scripture_studio · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CTimothy, because the Statute of Frauds does not apply to oral purchase-and-sale agreements between landlords and tenants already in possession.
Why it's attractive
It makes possession erase the writing rule for a whole category of land-sale contracts.
Why it's wrong
It makes possession erase the writing rule for a whole category of land-sale contracts.
14932_cedarbrook_scripture_studio · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice DMartha, because the parties' agreement was oral and violated the Statute of Frauds.
Why it's attractive
It states the writing rule but stops before the exception facts.
Why it's wrong
It states the writing rule but stops before the exception facts.
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