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Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts from key cases and writings in this incredibly dynamic field of law. The authors' expert commentary and questions enliven each topic and emphasize the practical application of the law in its business context.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 1: An introduction to commercial law
- 2: Basic concepts of personal property
- 3: Bailment
- 2: The Law of Agency
- 4: Introduction
- 5: Creation of agency and the authority of the agent
- 6: Relations with third parties
- 7: Relations between principal and agent
- 3: Domestic Sales Law
- 8: Introduction and definitions
- 9: Passing of the property in the goods as between seller and buyer
- 10: Transfer of title
- 11: Seller's obligations as to quality
- 12: Performance of the contract
- 13: Remedies of the seller
- 14: Remedies of the buyer
- 4: International Sales
- 15: International sales
- 5: Payment Methods
- 16: Modern payment systems
- 17: Payment cards
- 18: Negotiable instruments
- 19: Bills of exchange
- 20: Cheques and other instruments
- 6: The Financing of International Trade
- 21: The financing of international trade
- 22: Assignment of choses in action
- 23: Receivable financing
- 7: Commercial Credit and Security
- 24: Introduction
- 25: Possessory security
- 26: Non-possessory security
- 8: Principles of Insurance Law
- 27: Insurance
- 9: Insolvency Law
- 28: Insolvency
About the author
D Fox is Professor of Common Law at the University of Edinburgh.
R J C Munday is a Reader Emeritus in Law and a Fellow Emeritus of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He is also a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
B Soyer is the Director of Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University. He sits on the editorial boards of the
Journal of International Maritime Law,
Shipping and Trade Law and editorial committee of the
Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (
International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook).
A M Tettenborn is Professor of Commercial Law at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University. He is also a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
P G Turner is a Visiting Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School and was formerly a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
Summary
Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts from key cases and writings in this incredibly dynamic field of law. The authors' expert commentary and questions enliven each topic and emphasize the practical application of the law in its business context.
Additional text
This is an excellent 'all-round' text. The inclusion of textbook, case excerpts and other materials makes this a very good 'single' text for students.
