Business law and the legal environment / [electronic resource] Don Mayer, Daniel M. Warner, George J. Siedel.

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 -- Introduction to sales and leases -- Title and risk of loss -- Performance and remedies -- Product liability -- Bailments and the storage, shipment, and leasing of goods -- Nature and form of commercial paper -- Negotiation of commercial paper -- Holder in due course and defenses -- Liability and discharge -- Legal aspects of banking -- Consumer credit transactions -- Secured transactions and suretyship -- Mortgages and nonconsensual liens -- Bankruptcy -- Introduction to property: personal property and fixtures -- Intellectual property -- The nature and regulation of real estate and the environment -- The transfer of real estate by sale -- Landlord and tenant law -- Estate planning: wills, estates, and trusts -- Insurance -- 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.

This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials-and to their own lawyers.