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Business Law:
Principles, Cases, and Policy
by Mark E. Roszkowski
Seventh Edition, 2011.
ISBN 978-1-58874-940-6
List Price $124.80

Part One – Introduction to Law and the Legal System
        1.    Law and Courts
        2.    Civil Dispute Resolution
        3.    Criminal Law and Procedure
        4.    The Constitution and Business Regulation
        5.    Tort Law
        6.    Introduction to Property and the Uniform Commercial Code

Part Two – Contracts
        7.    Introduction to Contracts
        8.    Contract Formation-Agreement
        9.    Contract Formation-Consideration
        10.  Capacity and Legality
        11.  Genuine Assent
        12.  Written Agreements
        13.  Third Parties
        14.  Performance of the Contract
        15.  Contract Remedies

Part Three – Sales
        16.  The Sales Contract - General Obligations
        17.  The Sales Contract - Title and Risk  of Loss
        18.  The Sales Contract - Remedies
        19.  The Sales Contract - Warranties
        20.  Products Liability

Part Four – Negotiable Instruments
        21.  Introduction to Negotiable Instruments
        22.  Negotiability
        23.  Negotiation
        24.  Holders in Due Course
        25.  Liability of Parties - Contract Liability
        26.  Liability of Parties - Forgery and  Alteration
        27.  Bank Deposits and Collections:  Credit Cards and Electronic Fund  Transfers

Part Five- Debtor - Creditor Relations
        28.  Introduction to Debtor - Creditor  Relations
        29.  Creditors’ Remedies
        30.  Bankruptcy
        31.  Introduction to Secured Transactions
        32.  Secured Transactions – Priorities
        33.  Suretyship

Part Six – Property
        34.  Personal Property Ownership and  Transfer
        35.  Bailments, Documents of Title, and Letters of Credit
        36.  Real Property Ownership
        37.  Real Property Transfer
        38.  Regulating Land Use
        39.  Decedents’ Estates and Trusts

Part Seven - Business Organizations
        40.  Introduction to Agency
        41.  Agency and Torts
        42.  Introduction to Partnership
        43.  Operation and Termination of  Partnership
        44.  Limited Partnership and Limited Liability Companies
        45.  Introduction to Corporations
        46.  Corporate Financial Structure
        47.  Corporate Management - Structure and Duties
        48.  Corporate Management - Special  Topics

Part Eight - Government Regulation of Business
        49.  Securities Regulation
        50.  Introduction to Antitrust Law
        51.  The Sherman Act
        52.  The Clayton Act and Federal Trade Commission Act
        53.  Employee Protection and Labor Law
        54.  Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws
        55.  Environmental Law

Part Nine - Special Topics
        56.  Accountants’ Liability
        57.  Insurance Law
        58.  International Legal Problems
        59.  Technology Law

* Indicates the chapters selected for use in Professor Roszkowski’s own customized edition for his Legal Environment of Business course