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    <title>Business law and the legal environment</title>
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    <namePart>Anderson, Ronald A.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>West Educational Pub. Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1999</dateIssued>
    <edition>17th ed. (Comprehensive vol.) </edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>1 v. (various pagings): col. ill. ; 26 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 -- </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ronald A. Anderson ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Rev. ed. of: Business law and the legal environment / Ronald A. Anderson, Ivan Fox, David P. Twomey. Comprehensive vol., 15th ed. c1993.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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    <topic>Commercial law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>United States</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KF888.B97</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="21">346.7307</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0538882441 (alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">98006847</identifier>
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