Grading Student Responsibilities Dates Howard Baldwin, of Tuscon, Ariz., filed lawsuit against the local electric company, charging that the meter reader, Chuck Leon, frightened his poodle to death. A homeowner sued a lawnmower manufacturer for failing to label its product as hazardous. He and his neighbor had been holding it at chest height while they attempted to clip the garden hedge, and when the neighbor stumbled, the lawnmower fell on him, injuring him badly. The company was planning its July 4th celebration, but ran into financial difficulty and closed, leaving creditors angry.
Some situations seem ea sily definable in terms of rights and responsibilities.
I want to give you an idea of how and why our legal system is the way it is, what contracts and torts are, how our legal responsibilities are created, and what rights businessmen and women have in America. To do this, I will introduce you to legal rules and ideas that are common to all types of law, not just Business Law, so that by the end of the course you will have a broad understanding of the workings of the U.S. legal system as well as a specialized knowledge of contracts and torts. We then turn to contract formation and liability. We look at traditional contract law, and see how it has been modified by modern consumer laws and principles. A check is a special contract between you and a business that promises that your bank will pay your debt.