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Business Law: Principles and Practices
EighthEdition
Arnold Goldman
Law Firm of Goldman & Goldman
William Sigismond
Monroe Community College
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Contents
Chapter
Chapter 1 Foundations of Law and the Role of Ethics in Business...... 1
Chapter 2 The Legal System in the United States and Its Constitutional Foundation...... 9
Chapter 3 Personal, Business, and Cyber Crimes and Criminal Procedure...... 17
Chapter 4 Tort Law: Traditional Torts and Cyber Torts...... 25
Chapter 5 Litigation and Alternatives for Settling Civil Disputes...... 33
Chapter 6 Contract Law: A Beginning...... 41
Chapter 7 Agreement: Offer and Acceptance...... 49
Chapter 8 Consideration...... 57
Chapter 9 Capacity...... 65
Chapter 10Legality...... 73
Chapter 11 Formal Requirements—Statute of Frauds/E-Signatures...... 81
Chapter 12 Transfer of Contract Rights and Duties...... 89
Chapter 13 The Termination of Contracts: Discharge...... 97
Chapter 14 The Termination of Contracts: Breach of Contract...... 105
Chapter 15 Formation of Sales and Lease Contracts...... 113
Chapter 16 The Sales Contract: Transfer of Title and Risk of Loss...... 121
Chapter 17 The Sales Contract: Performance, Breach, and Remedies for Breach...... 129
Chapter 18 Product Liability Law...... 137
Chapter 19 Nature and Types of Negotiable Instruments...... 145
Chapter 20 Issue, Transfer, Indorsement, and Discharge of Negotiable Instruments...... 153
Chapter 21 Rights and Duties of Parties...... 161
Chapter 22 Checks and the Banking System in the Twenty-First Century...... 169
Chapter 23 Employer-Employee Relationship...... 177
Chapter 24 Principal-Agent Relationship...... 185
Chapter 25 Principal-Agent, Employer-Employee, and Third-Party Relationships...... 193
Chapter 26 Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Organizations...... 201
Chapter 27 Corporations and Franchising...... 209
Chapter 28 Government Regulation of Business...... 217
Chapter 29 Basic Legal Concepts of Property...... 225
Chapter 30 Renting Real Property...... 233
Chapter 31 Buying and Selling Real Property...... 241
Chapter 32 Nature and Types of Bailments...... 249
Chapter 33 Special Bailments...... 257
Chapter 34 Wills, Intestacy, and Estate Planning...... 265
Chapter 35 Protecting the Consumer and the Taxpayer...... 273
Chapter 36 Protecting the Borrower...... 281
Chapter 37 Protecting the Creditor...... 289
Chapter 38 Property, Casualty and Automobile Insurance...... 297
Chapter 39 Personal Insurance...... 305