Business Law Syllabus

Mary McDonald, an 86-year-old woman, was frequently complaining about the high cost of maintenance of her house and high property taxes. She decided to cancel her fire insurance to reduce expenses. Mary’s daughter was aware of her mother’s concern about the property, and she took Mary to the lawyer’s office to sign some papers that would protect her mother. When Mary came to the lawyer’s office, she was advised that the paper she was going to sign was the deed to the property. Mary signed a document. Later on, when the municipal tax bill arrived, Mary McDonald was really surprised to see that the property was in her daughter’s name.

Miller, Roger L., Gaylord Jentz. Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law Today: The Essentials, 10e, 10th Edition. Cengage Learning, 12/2012. VitalBook file.

Bell Microproducts, Inc. mailed to McGurn an offer of employment that stated that if McGurn were terminated without cause during the first 12 months of employment, he would receive a severance package of $120,000. McGurn crossed out 12 and replaced it with 24, and signed the contract. Bell did not acknowledge the change that had been made to the contract and hired the applicant. McGurn was terminated without cause 13 months later.

This course provides an overview of business law and introduces fundamental legal principles encountered in the business environment. Topics include state and federal courts and jurisdiction, contract law, tort law, commercial paper, bankruptcy, suretyship and accounting liability.

Bernie will prefer to act as a CEO in a Corporation with a board of directors that will direct him and will borne the direct responsibility for the acts of the corporation. He will also have the responsibility for the acts of the corporation. In order to attract Bernie to join the business, it is likely to offer him shares or options to purchase the shares of the corporation. This is not possible under a LP.

The case study which students are required to resolve using the four step process is set out below. Students are required to apply the relevant legal concepts and principles to analyse and solve the legal issues arising in the case study by explaining and applying their knowledge of the legal principles and rules arising in Australian legal system: topic four to five inclusive.

J. Paul Peter, 2012. Marketing Management: Knowledge and Skills, 11th Edition. 11th Edition. McGraw-Hill Education.

This is an introductory course in marketing. It seeks to acquaint participants with an understanding of the principles, concepts, theories and techniques in marketing.

Contract law is defined as lawfully enforceable agreement between two or more people to a contract. An agreement also known as a promise consists of an offer and an acceptance. An offer is defined as indication of the terms upon which an individual is ready to be obligated. On the other hand, an acceptance is the agreement of the terms that have been offered. The parties associated with the agreement are known as an offeror or an offeree. The offeror is the one who makes the offer, and the offeree is the one accepts the offer (Curtin College 2014).

Rwanda is trying to enhance accountability especially in the public sector by assessing the extent to which the executive can be held accountable for its use of funds and for the results of its actions by the electorate and by the legislature and judiciary, and the extent to which public employees within the executive are required to account for administrative decisions, use of resources, and results obtained.

It is sent to a new customer, or an existing customer who has been late making a payment

Ans.1. A basic management function involving formulation of one or more detailed plans to achieve optimum balance of needs or demands with the available resources. > The planning process (1) identifies the goals or objectives to be achieved, (2) formulates strategies to achieve them, (3) arranges or creates the means required, and (4) implements, directs, and monitors all steps in their proper sequence. >>Alternatively a planning The control of development by a local authority, through regulation and licensing for land use changes and building. >>.

In the era of globalization, business law is a common study for people today as commerce has become our trend in the worldwide. In this report, we will mainly focus on the main component of the law of contract which is consideration. Besides, we also will briefly explain the principles of offer and acceptance of offer in our case study. In this report, the principles of consideration consist of four elements which are consideration must be sufficient and need not be adequate, consideration need not move from the promisee, part payment of debt as satisfaction of a full debt, and past consideration is valid consideration. Moreover, we also have made a depth-research on principles of consideration with a several law cases which can be regarded to each principle. Furthermore, we also will highlights and details the principles in the law cases with a few factual statements which have been proven in famous law books in our country. This research definitely will help us to know more details about business law in our country.

* ‘Undue influence’ defined:- Undue influence means using superior power for obtaining the consent of the person who is weak in position and physical ability.

Qn 1: Whether James can hold the Happy Holiday Hotel for the loss of his property under the common law?