Includes index.

Contents: The Legal and social environment of business: Law and enforcement agencies -- Law as an expression of social forces -- The Constitution as the foundation of the legal environment -- Government regulation of business -- The International legal environment -- Administrative agencies -- Consumer protection -- Crime -- Torts -- Contracts: Nature and classes of contracts -- The Agreement -- Contractual capacity -- Genuineness of assent -- Consideration -- Legality and public policy -- Form of contract -- Interpretation of contracts -- Third persons and contracts -- Discharge of contracts -- Breach of contract and remedies -- Personal property and bailments: Personal property -- Bailments -- Special bailments and documents of title -- Sales: Nature and form of sales -- Risk and property rights -- Obligations and performance -- Warranties and other product liabilities -- Remedies for breach of sales contracts -- Commercial paper: Kinds of paper, parties, and negotiability -- Transfer of commercial paper -- Rights of holders and defenses -- Presentment of paper for payment and acceptance -- Discharge of commercial paper -- Checks and customer-bank relationship -- Secured transactions, creditors' rights, and insurance: Secured transactions under article 9 -- Order security devices -- Bankruptcy -- Insurance -- Kinds of insurance -- Agency and employment: Agency and employment: Agency-creation and termination -- Principal and agent -- Third persons in agency -- Employment -- Business organizations: Forms of business organizations -- Creation and termination of partnerships -- Powers and duties of partners -- Nature, creation, and termination of corporations -- Corporate powers -- Corporate stock and shareholders -- Management of corporations -- Real property: Nature and ownership of real property -- Leases -- Estates: Decedents' estates -- Trusts -- Appendices -- How to find the law -- U.S. constitution -- Uniform commercial code -- Uniform partnership act -- Uniform limited partnership act -- Revised ABA model business corporation act -- Glossary -- Subject index.