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Business Law
a QuickStudy Digital Reference Guide
Linda Harrison
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Business Law
a QuickStudy Digital Reference Guide
Linda Harrison
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As a business major, entrepreneur, or professional the more essential laws relevant to business operations you know, the better. This digital guide is a perfect quick reference to review laws that are covered in a business law course, but also for professionals reviewing laws related to start-ups, business operations or as a legal primer for decisions that could drastically affect your career and your company. Designed to find many related answers at a glance you can see the landscape of law in a more complete snapshot faster and more efficiently than scrolling through a listing of sites from your Google searches.
Digital guide includes:
- Torts
- Criminal Law
- Contracts
- Business Entities
- Partnerships
- Agency
- Corporations
- Product Liability
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Ethics
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WirtschaftsrechtUniform Commercial Code
Sales (Article 2) SCOPE FORMATION OF CONTRACTS PERFORMANCE Negotiable Instruments (Article 3) DEFINITIONS CLASSIFICATION RISK OF LOSS REMEDIES FOR BREACH
- Transactions in goods
- Goods are tangible items that are moveable, such as automobiles, clothes, textbooks, etc.
- Requirement of good faith and a commercially reasonable manner
- Refer to each rule to determine applicability to merchants and/or non-merchants
- Greater flexibility than common law
- Offer
- Includes conduct by both parties recognizing the existence of a contract
- Merchant’s Firm Offer Rule: Assurance that offer held open for time stated or reasonable time and not revocable for lack of consideration
- Gap-Filling Rule
- Contract does not fail for indefiniteness
- An open term can be read into contract EX: A “reasonable price” can be the market rate at time of delivery
- Quantity may be indefinite
- Output contract: Seller is bound to sell entire output to buyer
- Needs contract: Buyer is obligated to purchase all of its requirements from seller
- Other terms that can be left open include payment terms, place of delivery, time of performance, etc.
- Acceptance
- Any reasonable manner
- Battle of the Forms
- Definite and timely expression of acceptance creates a contract, even if there are different or additional terms
- Extra terms part of contract, except if expressly denied or there is evidence of material alteration
- Accommodation
- Shipment offered as replacement where goods ordered are unavailable
- Buyer is free to accept or reject shipment
- Shipment offered as replacement where goods ordered are unavailable
- Additional terms are permitted
- Non-merchants
- Additional terms are proposed additions and become part of the contract if accepted by original offeror
- If additional terms are not accepted, contract is formed on basis of original terms EX: Buyer accepts offer to buy textbook only if DVD (proposed addition) is included; if salesman refuses, contract consists of textbook alone (original)
- Exceptions to Statute of Frauds
- Specially manufactured goods
- Admission in court that contract was made
- Part acceptance requires payment for quantity accepted
- Consideration
- Modification does not require new consideration
- Title
- Goods must be identified before title can pass from seller to buyer
- By both parties
- According to terms of contract, practices of trade, or past dealings
- Buyer/Seller can demand assurance
- If not given within reasonable time, party is considered to have repudiated
- Excused from performance by commercial impracticability
- By seller
- Seller’s duty to deliver
- Seller’s right to cure nonconforming goods
- By buyer
- Buyer’s right to inspect and duty to pay
- Buyer’s right to revoke acceptance where nonconformity substantially impairs value
- Buyer’s right of rejection within reasonable time and upon proper notice
- Duty to follow seller’s reasonable instructions (ship back, resell, or store)
- Negotiable instruments
- Written promise to pay money: Promissory note and certificate of deposit
- Order to pay money: Drafts and checks
- Means of extending credit
- Negotiation
- Transfer of instrument where recipient becomes holder
- Holder
- In possession and has all necessary indorsements
- Holder in due course
- Has good title to instrument
- Paid value and acquired in good faith
- Takes instrument with no notice of its being overdue or dishonored, and without notice of any claims or defenses
- Remains subject to real defenses affecting validity
- Minority, incapacity, duress, illegality, fraud, forgery, material alteration
- Paper
- Order (payable to specific payee)
- Bearer (payable to bearer or cash)
- Indorsement: Signature of holder
- Special instructions transferring paper (order) EX: Indorsed; writes “Pay to the Order of Aunt Mary”
- Blank (bearer)
- Restrictive: Specific purpose EX: Indorsed and then writes “For Deposit Only” and account number
- Qualified: Disclaim or limit liability EX: Indorsed and then writes “Without Recourse”
- Special instructions transferring paper (order)
- Promissory notes
- Two-party instrument (maker/payee)
- Unconditional promise to pay money at a particular time or on demand
- Certificate of deposit
- Acknowledgment of receipt of money
- Promise to pay money plus interest
- Drafts
- Three-party instrument
- Drawer: Party who writes order for draft
- Drawee: Party who must pay amount stated in draft
- Payee: Party who receives money
- Three-party instrument
- Checks
- Type of draft
- Drawer: Checking account holder
- Drawee: Always a bank
- Payee: Person to whom check is made; payable on demand to the bank on which check is written
- Include ordinary checks and special checks, such as certified, cashier’s, and traveler’s checks
- Defined by terms of agreement
- Borne by breaching party
- Generally borne by party best able to protect against loss and most likely to be insured
- Shipment contract
- Risk passes to buyer when seller delivers goods to carrier
- F.O.B. (“free on board”): Delivered to Carrier
- F.A.S. (“free alongside”): Delivered alongside vessel
- C.I.F. (price includes cost of goods, insurance, and freight)
- C. & F.: Seller does not insure goods
- C.O.D. (collect on delivery)
- Destination contract
- Risk passes to buyer when seller delivers to specific destination
- F.O.B. (place of destination)
- Conditional sales
- Sale on approval: Risk of loss remains with seller until buyer accepts
- Sale or return: Risk of loss is with buyer while goods are in his/her possession and during return to seller
- Liquidated damages agreed upon
- Seller’s remedies
- Cancellation
- Withholding delivery
- Reselling goods
- Recovery of profit from buyer
- Recovery of purchase price
- Reclaim goods whe...