LSAT 101 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q12

RC Question 12 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The court recognized that there is a difference between throwing an object on the side of the road and carefully placing an object with a loved one during a funeral ceremony.

So the court considered why people placed objects in graves.

A quotation from the decision is given on lines 40-43. The court doesn’t like the idea of anyone robbing graves, either now or after the descendants of the deceased have left the area.

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1. See lines 42-43. The judge doesn’t think objects can be taken from graves, even after the descendants have left the area.
2. CORRECT. If you bury an object because you don’t want it any more, then it’s abandoned and someone can take it.
   But if you bury an object as part of a funeral ritual, then you’re not abandoning it, and no one can take it.
3. The judge implied that the buried objects could not be taken at any time. Not immediately after the funeral, and not after the descendants had left the area.
4. Lines 42-43 show this doesn’t matter. If an object wasn’t abandoned when it was buried, then no one can take it from the grave, even if the descendants leave.
5. This just mixes together a few terms to confuse you. The judgement was about the graves themselves. We don’t know anything about the property where the graves are found.