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To impress his new girlfriend, a man executed and delivered to the girlfriend a warranty deed to a vacant cabin. The girlfriend promptly and properly recorded her deed. A month later, the girlfriend moved into the cabin and has occupied the property since. At the time of the conveyance to the girlfriend, the man did not actually own the cabin. His mother was the record title holder, but she had always told the man the cabin would one day be his. Later, the mother died, and her will devised the cabin to the man. Shortly thereafter, the man lost his job and needed money, so he sold the cabin for its full value to a neighbor by warranty deed. The neighbor promptly and properly recorded but did not conduct a title search before accepting the deed. Both the girlfriend and the neighbor now claim ownership of the cabin. The jurisdiction in which the cabin is located has the following statute: “No unrecorded conveyance or mortgage of real property shall be good against subsequent purchasers for value without notice unless the conveyance is recorded.” Who has title to the cabin?

As part of a divorce settlement, an ex-husband made a legally binding promise to his ex-wife to provide housing for their twin 18-year-old daughters throughout their undergraduate college careers. Pursuant to that promise, the ex-husband entered into a contract with a contractor for the renovation of a condominium that the ex-husband purchased near the daughters’ college campus. The contract called for the renovations to be complete before school began on August 1. The contractor began renovating the condo but breached the contract by abandoning the condo unfinished on July 1. The contractor was aware when the agreement was made of the purpose for which the ex-husband wanted the completed condo. Which of the following, if true, would best support the ex-husband’s claim for consequential damages on account of the condo not being finished by August 1?

An employee of a construction company working in a high crime neighborhood negligently cut through power cables. The accident knocked out power to the area and disabled a home’s security system. The homeowner, who was out of town, received an alert from the security company advising her to arrange for someone to go to the house and restart the system with a backup power source. The homeowner got distracted soon after getting the message and neglected to contact anyone. That evening, a burglar broke into the home while power was still off in the neighborhood. Because the security system was not working and the alarm did not go off, the burglar was able to steal jewelry and other valuables from the home and escape. The homeowner sued the construction company for the loss of her valuables in a jurisdiction that has adopted pure comparative negligence rules. Is the homeowner likely to recover?

Myanmar is undergoing fragmentation: large parts of the country, including most of Myanmar’s international borders, are now under the dominion of various ethnic armed groups.  In the above excerpt, the use of the word fragmentation emphasizes

Write an Essay  in which you take a position on Spring Break and support that position in your essay with specific reasons and examples from your own experience, observations, or reading (see the above question). Essay must have an introduction paragraph, conclusion paragraph and 2 body paragraphs (1 boy paragraph if you run out of time).  Include a Works Cited page with source cited.  You are required to have 1 in-text citation of a quote or paraphrase from the source page. The rest of the information comes from you.  For MLA-  include the header (with your name, class etc) and title and name. Do not double space. Instead have extra line between paragraphs.    If you need scratch paper-use what is included and turn that in. Choose Option A or B  Your high school is debating whether or not to cancel Spring break or extend it to two weeks. Take a side on this issue coming up with a well developed thesis and support with specific ideas and examples.  Use the “Spring Break Hype or Hope” article (see above) once in your essay. Write in 3rd person.

What can be logically inferred about solutions to noise pollution from the passage?

Paragraph 7 begins with this sentence: “Along with the growth of the automotive industry, the construction of the interstate highway system significantly changed the lives of Americans.” What pattern of organization does this suggest the paragraph will primarily use? 

Which statement best summarizes this passage?

What is the main purpose of quoting Dr. Jennifer Etnier in paragraph 4?

What does the word ordinances most likely mean in paragraph 4?