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050 _aKF889.B28
100 _aBarnes, James A.
245 _aLaw for business. /
_cA. James Barnes, Terry Morehead Dworkin and Eric L. Richards
250 _a9th ed.
260 _aBoston:
_bMcGraw Hill,
_cc2006.
300 _axxxiii, 1006 p.:
_c26cm.
_bill.;
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aContents: Introduction to the law: Law, legal reasoning, and the legal profession -- Dispute settlement -- Business ethics and corpoate social responsibility -- Business and the constitution -- Crimes -- International torts -- Negligence and strict liability -- Contracts: The Nature and origins of contracts -- Creating a contract: acceptances -- Consideration -- Capacity to contract -- Voluntary consent -- Illegality -- The Form and meaning of contracts -- Third parties' contract rights -- Performance and remedies -- Sales: Formation and terms of sales contracts -- Warranties and product liability -- Performance of sales contracts -- Remedies for breach of sales contracts -- Agency and employment: The Agency relationship - creation, duties, and termination -- Liability of principals and agents to third parties -- Employment laws -- Business organizations: Which form of business organization? -- Partnerships -- Formation and termination corporations -- Management of corporate business -- Financing the corporation and the role of the shareholders -- Securities regulation -- Legal liability of accountants -- Property: Personal property and bailments -- Real property -- Landlord and tenant -- Estates and trusts -- Insurance -- Commercial paper: Negotiable instruments -- Negotiation and holder in due course -- Liability of parties -- Checks and electronic fund transfers -- Credit transactions: Introduction to security -- Security interests in personal property -- Bankruptcy -- Government regulations: The Antitrust laws -- Consumer protection laws -- Environmental regulation -- Appendix: A: The Constitution of the United States of America -- Appendix B: Glossary of legal terms and definitions -- Appendix C: Spanish-English equivalents for important legal terms.
650 _bBusiness law
700 _aDworkin, Terry Morehead
700 _aRichards, Eric L.
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_cBK
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