Kurt and Jennifer Have an Agreement That Jennifer Will Buy

question 47

Multiple Choice

Kurt and Jennifer have an agreement that Jennifer will buy Kurt's house. Later, Jennifer verbally assigns the right to buy the house to Kristi, one of Kurt's former girlfriends. When Kristi shows up with the money, Kurt says "No way! You ditched me to date Rick. I'm not ever letting you get anything from me!" Which of the following is true in regard to the dispute between Kurt and Kristi?

• A) Kristi can enforce the assignment only if the agreement that Kurt and Jennifer had was in writing.
• B) Kristi can enforce the assignment.
• C) Kristi cannot enforce the assignment because it was not in writing.
• D) Kristi cannot enforce the assignment because Kurt did not specifically grant Jennifer the power to assign the contract.
• E) Kristi cannot enforce the assignment because assignments to purchase property cannot ever be assigned for public policy reasons.

Grasp the concept of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics and its analogous phenomenon of reactivity in sociological research.

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Definitions:

Argument

An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one, or a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.

Valid

Describes an argument or inference such that the truth of the premises entails or implies that conclusion must be true; in other words, it is impossible for the conclusion to be false if all of the premises are true.

Truth Table

A mathematical table used in logic, specifically in Boolean algebra, to compute the truth values of logical expressions based on their operators.

Negation

A grammatically correct construction used to assert that a statement is false.