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Foundations of business law and the legal environment.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Open Textbook Library.
- Open textbook library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial law--United States.
- Commercial law.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Updated irregularly.
- Distribution:
- Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.
- Other Title:
- Title from Open Textbook Library website: Foundations of business law and legal environment.
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, Virginia : Saylor Academy, 2012-
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential concepts across a broad range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials - and to their own lawyers."--Open Textbook Library.
- Contents:
- Introduction to law and legal systems
- Corporate social responsibility and business ethics
- Courts and the legal process
- Constitutional law and US commerce
- Administrative law
- Criminal law
- Introduction to tort law
- Introduction to contract law
- The agreement
- Real assent
- Consideration
- Legality
- Form and meaning
- Third-party rights
- Discharge of obligations
- Remedies
- Products liability
- Relationships between principal and agent
- Liability of principal and agent; termination of agency
- Partnerships: general characteristics and formation
- Partnership operation and termination
- Hybrid business forms
- Corporation: general characteristics and formation
- Legal aspects of corporate finance
- Corporate powers and management
- Securities regulation
- Corporate expansion, state and federal regulation of foreign corporations, and corporate dissolution
- Antitrust law
- Unfair trade practices and the Federal Trade Commission
- Employment law
- Labor-management relations
- International law.
- Notes:
- This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license.
- Description based on online version, version 1.0, 2012; Title from PDF (viewed on July 11, 2016)
- ISBN:
- 1453343725
- 9781453343722
- OCLC:
- 953414414
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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