Richard Yates Chapters 1-16
,TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Managing Your Legal Affairs
2. Introduction to the Legal System
3. The Resolution of Disputes: The Courts and Alternatives to Litigation
4. Intentional Torts and Torts Impacting Business
5. Negligence, Professional Liability, and Insurance
6. The Elements of a Contract: Consensus and Consideration
7. The Elements of a Contract: Capacity, Legality, and Intention
8. Factors Affecting the Contractual Relationship
9. The End of the Contractual Relationship
10. Agency and Partnership
11. Corporations
12. Employment
13. Intellectual Property
14. Real and Personal Property and Protection of the Environment
15. Priority of Creditors
16. Sales and Consumer Protection
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