PT112.S3.Q5

PrepTest 112 - Section 3 - Question 5

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Solicitor: Loux named Zembaty executor of her will. ███ ████ ███████████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ███ ███ ████ █████ █████ ██ ████████████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ████████████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ██ ██████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ███ ████████ █████ ██████ ████ █████ █████████ ███ ██████████ ██████ █████ ███ █████ █████ █████ ████████ ███ ████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ██ ████████ ████ ████ █████ ████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ █████████ ██████ ████ ██ ██████ ████ ██████ ███████████ ██ ██ ███ █████████

Argument Summary

The solicitor provides some important facts about Loux's will:

1. Zembaty is the executor

2. Loux's grandson is the only beneficiary

3. Zembaty had to sell some properties to clear the estate's debts before distributing what was left to the grandson

4. Loux expressed no particular desire about the Stoke Farm, the estate's only farmland

This last statement — that Loux expressed no particular desire about the Stoke Farm — is the solicitor's main support for concluding that Loux would have no objection to Zembaty selling the farm instead of transferring it to the grandson.

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5.

Which one of the following, ██ █████ ████ ███████ ███ ███████████ █████████

a

The estate's debts █████ ███ ████ ████ ███████ ███████ ███████ ███ █████ █████
Incorrect. This just tells us that selling the Stoke Farm was necessary to clear the estate's debts and pass on the remainder to Loux's grandson. That doesn't give us any reason to think Loux would have objected to Zembaty's decision to sell the farm, which is what we need to weaken the argument.
2%
b

Loux repeatedly told ███ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ██ ███ █████
Incorrect. (B) doesn't give us any reason to think that Loux would have wanted the Stoke Farm, specifically, to be transferred to her grandson instead of sold.
3%
c

Loux was well █████ ██ ███ █████ ████████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ████ ██ ████████
Incorrect. (C) doesn't give us any reason to think Loux would have objected to Zembaty selling the Stoke Farm.
2%
d

The Stoke Farm ███ ███ ████ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████
Incorrect. (D) also doesn't give us any reason to think Loux would object to Zembaty selling the Stoke Farm instead of transferring it to her grandson. Maybe Loux would have been happy for Zembaty to sell the farm instead of passing it on, if it was piling up debt for the estate — we don't know.
3%
e

Loux's grandson had ██████████ █████████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █ █████
Correct. (E) is similar to what we pre-phrased above. If Loux's grandson wanted to own a farm, and the Stoke Farm was the only farmland on the estate, this gives us a reason to think that Loux would have wanted to transfer the farm to her grandson, and would have objected to Zembaty's decision to sell the farm instead.
89%

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