Business

Business Law.

Practical Business Law, Third Edition offers a fundamental approach to the law with the foundation of legal principles explained in laymen's language. It presents the principles of business law in a simple step-building manner. It illustrates principles with stimulating examples which aids students in retaining those principles. The text employs a variety of techniques that enable the students to grasp the material.

• guides students to an understanding of law principles through a step-by-step approach.

• illustrates principles with stimulating examples and cases, providing students with concrete applications. Allows the professor flexibility in adding his or her own material and instances of practical experience.

  • each chapter contains tailor-made examples using a different set of characters and scenarios based on history, mythology, astrology, art, science, film, literature, and athletics.

  • each chapter also contains cases, with accompanying review questions, that are extracted from actual cases to enhance class discussions while providing students with a pragmatic view of the reasoning behind court decisions.

• aids students in retaining principles of law by employing a variety of memory devices.

  • uses mnemonics—catch phrases or codes wherein each letter represents a point of law—to remember important points like the elements of a contract as “PALACE”: Promise, Agreement, Legal capacity, Act, Consideration, Executed in proper form.

• Third Edition offers three innovative additions:

  • more than 150 NEW cases, current from 1990 through 1993.

• a special topics section addressing business ethics included at the end of each of the six parts of the book.

• Part II covering Environmental Law, International Law, Employment Law.

I. INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW.

II. CONTEMPORARY TOPICS.

III. CONTRACT LAW.

IV. COMMERCIAL LAW.

V. PROPERTY LAW.

VI. BUSINESS LAW.

Business Law (Summarized or Brief Case Approach) [CORE TEXTS] (Business Law)

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