Commercial Law

Commercial Law offers a fresh, modern, and stimulating account of the subject, thereby helping students better understand this important area of law.

The text provides thorough coverage of all key aspects of the syllabus, including the law of agency, the sale of goods, international trade, and methods of payment, finance, and security.

A range of learning features are employed throughout the book to encourage understanding of the law and to demonstrate how the principles behind it play out in practical domestic and international commercial transactions.

Online Resource Centre

Commercial Law is accompanied by a comprehensive Online Resource Centre which offers free access to the following resources:

- Twice-annual updates on key developments
- Bonus online chapters covering consumer credit, insurance law and competition law
- Further reading lists for each chapter
- A flashcard glossary
- A test bank of multiple-choice questions
- Downloadable versions of the diagrams from the book
- Guidance on approaching the problem questions posed in the book

An introduction to commercial law
1. An introduction to commercial law
2. Personal property
The law of agency
3. An introduction to the law of agency
4. The creation of the agency relationship
5. The authority of the agent
6. The relationship between principal and agent
7. The relationship between principal and third party
8. The relationship between agent and third party
9. The termination of the agency relationship
The law relating to the domestic sale of goods
10. An introduction to the sale of goods
11. The transfer of property and risk
12. The transfer of title
13. The perishing of goods
14. Delivery and payment
15. The statutory implied terms
16. The remedies of the seller
17. The remedies of the buyer
18. Product liability
International trade
19. Introduction and documentation
20. FoB, CiF and other INCO terms
21. International contracts for the carriage of goods
22. Controlling risk in international trade
Methods of payment, finance and security
23. The payment obligation and the concept of money
24. Bills of exchange and non-documentary methods of payment
25. Forms of consensual and non-consensual activity
26. Forms of business financing