Business law and the legal environment
By: by Don Mayer [and others]
Publisher: Flatworld Knowledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Irvington, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781453305164; 9781453323700
Subjects: Commercial law
Notes: "You'll get free chapter 1 digital supplements when you register online. Simply find your class at www.FlatWorldStudents.com to get started!, "

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to law and legal systems; title: Corporate social responsibility and business ethics; title: Courts and the legal process; title: Constitutional law and US commerce; title: Administrative law; title: Criminal law; title: Introduction to tort law; title: Introduction to contract law; title: The agreement; title: Real assent; title: Consideration; title: Legality; title: Form and meaning; title: Third-party rights; title: Discharge of obligations; title: Remedies; title: Introduction to sales and leases; title: Title and risk of loss; title: Performance and remedies; title: Product liability; title: Bailments and the storage, shipment, and leasing of goods; title: Nature and form of commercial paper; title: Negotiation of commercial paper; title: Holder in due course and defenses; title: Liability and discharge; title: Legal aspects of banking; title: Consumer credit transactions; title: Secured transactions and suretyship; title: Mortgages and nonconsensual liens; title: Bankruptcy; title: Introduction to property: personal property and fixtures; title: Intellectual property; title: The nature and regulation of real estate and the environment; title: The transfer of real estate by sale; title: Landlord and tenant law; title: Estate planning: wills, estates, and trusts; title: Insurance; title: Relationships between principal and agent; title: Liability of principal and agent: termination of agency; title: Partnerships: general characteristics and formation; title: Partnership operation and termination; title: Hybrid business forms; title: Corporation: general characteristics and formation; title: Legal aspects of corporate finance; title: Corporate powers and management; title: Securities regulation; title: Corporate expansion, state and federal regulation of foreign corporations, and corporate dissolution; title: Antitrust law; title: Unfair trade practices and the Federal Trade Commission; title: Employment law; title: Labor-management relations; title: International law.