Legal Aspects Of Business

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Law and Business

PART 1: CONTRACT LAW

2. Introduction to Contract Law

3. Offer, Acceptance and Agreement

4. Acceptance, Rejection and Revocation of Offer

5. Formation of Agreement: Cases

6. Formation of Agreement: Text

7. Time and Place of Formation of Contract

8. Unilateral and Bilateral Contracts

9. Consideration: Cases

10. Consideration and Contracts

11. Sufficiency of Consideration

12. Privity of Contract

13. Capacity to Contract

14. Void Contracts

15. Voidable Contracts

16. Contingent Contract

17. Breach, Damages and Compensation

18. Standard Terms and Freedom of Contract

PART 2: SALE OF GOODS

19. Ownership and Quality of Goods: Cases

20. Sale of Goods: Ownership and Quality

21. Sale and Transfer of Ownership: Cases

22. Sale of Goods: Transfer of Property

23. Sale of Goods: Further Developments

PART 3: SPECIAL CONTRACTS

24. Bailment

25. Guarantee

26. Agent, Agency and Principal

27. Partnership

PART 4: CONSUMER PROTECTION

28. Reading Legal Texts

29. Consumer Protection Act: Cases

30. Formation of the Consumer Protection Act

31. Unfair Trade Practices: Cases

32. Development of the Law on Unfair Trade Practices

PART 5: COMPANY LAW

33. Company Law: Introduction

34. Incorporation of Companies

35. Prospectus and Raising of Capital

36. Meeting and Company Law

37. Merger and Amalgamation

38. Securities Regulation

PART 6: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

39. Law, Liberalisation and Globalisation

40. Intellectual Property Right

41. Patents

42. Copyright Protection

43. Law on Trade Mark Protection

PART 7: BANKING LAW

44. Banking Law

45. Negotiable Instruments

PART 8: LAW AND TAXATION

46. Introduction to Taxation in India

47. Central Excise Tax

48. Value Added Tax

49. Service Tax

PART 9: MISCELLANEOUS THEMES

50. Business and the Fundamental Rights

51. Information Technology and Law

52. Environment Protection Act

53. Business and Criminal Liability

54. Indian Legal System

Annexure 1: The Indian Contract Act, 1872

Annexure 2: Indian Sale of Goods Act, 1930

Annexure 3: The Standards of Weights And Measures Act, 1976

Annexure 4: The Standards Of Weights And Measures

(Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977

Annexure 5: Consumer Protection Act, 1986

Annexure 6: Unfair Trade Practice

Glossary of Legal Terms

New Features

The book adopts a ?learning by discovering? approach which makes it refreshingly different and a motivational read. Each important theme (of the laws) opens with a chapter having unanswered cases that bring out disputes arising from business practices and other common incidents. The student -- in thinking through the cases and settling the disputes ? discovers the concepts and principles that underlie that theme and interpretation of the relevant legal provisions. The succeeding chapter on the same theme confirms the student?s understanding and develops it further through notes, examples, and review & analysis of court judgements. Thirteen new chapters on contract law have been added Section on Consumer Protection Act significantly expanded