The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 24, Problem 1BS
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Case summary : The person P received an advertisement circular in his mail from the company E announcing a line of regional cookbook. A was not interested and threw away the advertisement circular. Two days later, he received a cookbook as a free trial. A didn’t return the product, and E demanded payment for the cookbook.
To find: The liability of A to pay for the product.
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