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ID: LSAT-LR-059
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Principle
Difficulty level: Easy

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Principle: An institution that has benefited from an error should bear the cost of putting it right, even where the error was not its own, and what it must give up is the benefit itself and nothing beyond it.

Application: A customer's transfer was delayed by several weeks. The bank should refund the interest it charged on the delayed transfer.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to justify the application of the principle?

AThe clearing house has formally admitted that the delay was its own mistake and has apologised in writing to the bank's customer.

BThe bank made no profit on the customer's account taken as a whole in the year of the delay, once running costs are set against what it earned.

CThe customer noticed the error within a week of the transfer, wrote to the bank the same day, and has been pressing for an answer since.

DThe bank has refunded interest of this kind in several similar cases over the past two years, without being asked to and without waiting for anyone to accept blame.

EThe delay was the clearing house's mistake, and the interest it produced was kept by the bank.

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