Rev. ed. of: Business law and the legal environment / Ronald A. Anderson, Ivan Fox, David P. Twomey. Comprehensive vol., 15th ed. c1993.

Includes index.

Contents: The Legal and social environment of business: The nature and sources of law -- The court system and dispute resolution -- Business ethics, social forces and the law -- Business ethics, social forces and the law -- The Constitution as the foundation of the legal environment -- Government regulation of competition and prices -- Administrative agencies -- The Legal environment of international trade -- Crimes -- Torts -- Intellectual property rights -- Contracts: Nature and classes of contracts -- The agreement -- Capacity and genuine assent -- Consideration -- Legality and public policy -- Form of contract -- Interpretation of contracts -- Third persons and contracts -- Discharge of contracts -- Breach of contract and remedies -- Accountants' liability and malpractice -- Personal property and bailments: Personal property -- Bailments -- Legal aspects of warehousing, transportation, factoring and hotelkeeping -- Sales and leases of personal property: Nature and form of sales -- Passage of title and risk of loss: rights of parties -- Obligations of performance -- Warranties and other product liability theories -- Remedies for breach of sales contracts -- Consumer protection -- Negotiable instruments: Kinds of instruments, parties and negotiability -- Transfer of negotiable instruments -- Rights of holders and defenses -- Checks and funds transfers -- Debtor-creator relations and risk management: Secured transactions in personal property -- Other security devices -- Bankruptcy -- Insurance -- Agency and employment: Agency -- Third persons in agency -- Regulation of employment -- Equal employment opportunity law -- Business organizations: Forms of business organizations -- Creation and termination of partnerships -- Partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability companies -- Introduction to corporation law -- Corporate stocks and bonds -- Securities regulation -- Management of corporations -- Real property and estates: Real property -- Environmental law and land use controls -- Leases -- Decedents' estate and trusts --