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A noted author was writing a screenplay that he was adapting from his novel Quiet Winter. He assigned in writing 25 percent of any future royalties, when and if the screenplay was made into either a movie or a stage play, to his friend, who had subsidized him during his early years as a struggling writer. Shortly after the screenplay was completed, the author was killed in an auto accident. A movie studio then purchased the screenplay from the executors of the author's estate and filmed the movie Quiet Winter, which was a great success. In an action against the executors of the author's estate to recover her percentage of the movie royalties, the friend will most likely

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  1. lose, because under the circumstances an assignment of future rights is unenforceable.
  2. lose, because the attempted gift of royalties failed for non-delivery.
  3. win, because she was an intended beneficiary.
  4. win, because the assignment of future rights is enforceable.

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