Parties Sometimes Enter into Verbal Agreements but Then Only Partly

question 12

Multiple Choice

Parties sometimes enter into verbal agreements but then only partly perform their obligations. For the claim of part performance to succeed, what needs to be established?

• A) The acts performed by the party alleging part performance must be demonstrated to be acts that refer only to the agreement of the lands in question, and to no other.
• B) It must be shown that to enforce the statute against the party who partly performed that the lack of a written memorandum would perpetrate a fraud and a hardship on the person.
• C) The agreement must relate to an interest in land.
• D) The agreement itself must be valid and enforceable apart from the requirement of writing, and verbal evidence must be available to establish the existence of the agreement.
• E) All of these

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Definitions:

Stimulus

Any object, event, or change in the environment that elicits a sensory or behavioral response.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned response.

Reinforcer

Any stimulus that strengthens or increases the probability of a specific response or behavior by being delivered or removed after the behavior occurs.

Punisher

In behavioral psychology, any stimulus that decreases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.