Business Law and the Legal Environment v3.0

By Don Mayer, Daniel Warner, George Siedel, and Jethro K. Lieberman

Published

September 2022

Discipline

Business Law Textbooks

ISBN (Digital)

978-1-4533-3821-6

Brief Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
• Chapter 2: Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
• Chapter 3: Introduction to Courts and the Legal Process
• Chapter 4: Introduction to Constitutional Law and U.S. Commerce
• Chapter 5: Introduction to Administrative Law
• Chapter 6: Introduction to Criminal Law
• Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law
• Chapter 8: Introduction to Contract Law
• Chapter 9: Offer and Acceptance
• Chapter 10: Real Acceptance: Free Will, Knowledge, and Capacity
• Chapter 11: Consideration
• Chapter 12: Legality
• Chapter 13: Form and Meaning
• Chapter 14: Third-Party Rights
• Chapter 15: Discharge of Common-Law Contract Obligations
• Chapter 16: Common-Law Remedies
• Chapter 17: Bailments and the Storage, Shipment, and Leasing of Goods
• Chapter 18: Introduction to Sales and Leases
• Chapter 19: Title and Risk of Loss
• Chapter 20: Sales Contracts Performance and Remedies
• Chapter 21: Products Liability
• Chapter 22: Nature and Form of Commercial Paper
• Chapter 23: Negotiation of Commercial Paper
• Chapter 24: Holder in Due Course and Defenses
• Chapter 25: Liability and Discharge of Commercial Paper
• Chapter 26: Legal Aspects of Banking
• Chapter 27: Consumer Credit Transactions
• Chapter 28: Secured Transactions and Suretyship
• Chapter 29: Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
• Chapter 30: Bankruptcy
• Chapter 31: Introduction to Property: Personal Property and Fixtures
• Chapter 32: Intellectual Property
• Chapter 33: Regulation of Real Estate
• Chapter 34: Environmental Law
• Chapter 35: The Transfer of Real Estate by Sale
• Chapter 36: Landlord and Tenant Law
• Chapter 37: Estate Planning: Wills, Estates, and Trusts
• Chapter 38: Insurance
• Chapter 39: Relationships Between Principal and Agent
• Chapter 40: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency
• Chapter 41: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation
• Chapter 42: Partnership Operation and Termination
• Chapter 43: Hybrid Business Forms
• Chapter 44: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation
• Chapter 45: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance
• Chapter 46: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution
• Chapter 47: Corporate Powers and Management
• Chapter 48: Securities Regulation
• Chapter 49: Antitrust Law
• Chapter 50: Unfair Trade Practices, the Federal Trade Commission, and Consumer Protection Laws
• Chapter 51: Employment Law
• Chapter 52: International Law
• Chapter 53: Liability and Regulation of Accountants