- Published
- March 2017
- Page Count
- 1518
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-8391-9
Business Law and the Legal Environment
Version 2.0
By Don Mayer, Daniel Warner, George Siedel, and Jethro K. Lieberman
Included Supplements
Key Features
- Includes both case summaries and excerpted cases.
- Embedded links to law-related videos on YouTube and other online sites for easy access by students and instructors.
- Customizable.
Students
- Online Access Price
- $49.95
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- $91.95
This textbook is suitable for the following courses: Business Law or Legal Environment (one- or two- semester course).
Business Law and the Legal Environment provides comprehensive coverage of all essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues that businesses face and contains excerpts from key cases for each topic area. This book is comparable to the Clarkson, Miller, Cross Business Law textbook. The authors also give students the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for business people to communicate in an educated way with colleagues, customers, suppliers and government officials. Students are also provided with progressive and comprehensive coverage of the principles of international business.
New in This Version
- Reflects the changes in the law as relevant.
- New section presenting regulations affecting consumer credit transactions.
- Combination of two previous chapters on labor law and employment law into one chapter.
- New chapter on accountants’ professional liability has been added.
- All Instructor Supplements have been updated and improved.
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
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Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
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Chapter 3: Courts and the Legal Process
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Chapter 4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce
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Chapter 5: Administrative Law
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Chapter 6: Criminal Law
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Chapter 7: Introduction to Tort Law
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Chapter 8: Introduction to Contract Law
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Chapter 9: The Agreement
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Chapter 10: Free Will, Knowledge, and Capacity (Real Assent)
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Chapter 11: Consideration
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Chapter 12: Legality
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Chapter 13: Form and Meaning
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Chapter 14: Third-Party Rights
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Chapter 15: Discharge of Obligations
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Chapter 16: Remedies
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Chapter 17: Introduction to Sales and Leases
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Chapter 18: Title and Risk of Loss
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Chapter 19: Performance and Remedies
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Chapter 20: Products Liability
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Chapter 21: Bailments and the Storage, Shipment, and Leasing of Goods
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Chapter 22: Nature and Form of Commercial Paper
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Chapter 23: Negotiation of Commercial Paper
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Chapter 24: Holder in Due Course and Defenses
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Chapter 25: Liability and Discharge
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Chapter 26: Legal Aspects of Banking
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Chapter 27: Consumer Credit Transactions
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Chapter 28: Secured Transactions and Suretyship
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Chapter 29: Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
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Chapter 30: Bankruptcy
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Chapter 31: Introduction to Property: Personal Property and Fixtures
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Chapter 32: Intellectual Property
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Chapter 33: The Nature and Regulation of Real Estate and the Environment
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Chapter 34: The Transfer of Real Estate by Sale
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Chapter 35: Landlord and Tenant Law
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Chapter 36: Estate Planning: Wills, Estates, and Trusts
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Chapter 37: Insurance
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Chapter 38: Relationships between Principal and Agent
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Chapter 39: Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency
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Chapter 40: Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation
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Chapter 41: Partnership Operation and Termination
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Chapter 42: Hybrid Business Forms
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Chapter 43: Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation
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Chapter 44: Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance
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Chapter 45: Corporate Powers and Management
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Chapter 46: Securities Regulation
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Chapter 47: Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution
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Chapter 48: Antitrust Law
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Chapter 49: Unfair Trade Practices, the Federal Trade Commission, and Consumer Protection Laws
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Chapter 50: Employment Law
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Chapter 51: International Law
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Chapter 52: Liability and Regulation of Accountants
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