Legal Aspects of Property, Estate Planning, and Insurance
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This text covers legal issues that students must understand relating to real estate (an especially important business asset), as well as estate planning and insurance. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.
Front Matter
1: Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
2: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
3: Courts and the Legal Process
4: Constitutional Law and US Commerce
5: Administrative Law
6: Criminal Law
7: Introduction to Tort Law
8: Contracts
9: Introduction to Property - Personal Property and Fixtures
10: Intellectual Property
11: The Nature and Regulation of Real Estate and the Environment
12: The Transfer of Real Estate by Sale
13: Landlord and Tenant Law
14: Estate Planning - Wills, Estates, and Trusts
15: Insurance
16: Secured Transactions and Suretyship
17: Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
18: Bailments and the Storage, Shipment, and Leasing of Goods
Back Matter