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Enhance your ability to protect your personal and business interests with this course, based on the U.S. legal system. Topics include sales, commercial paper, partnerships, corporations, bankruptcy, insurance, legal research and employment law.
Course: BBS-801, Media: B, C or LP, Lessons: 5
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Course DetailsCourse ID: B-BS-801
Course Description
This course is designed to familiarize you with how basic legal principles affect your personal and professional life. By gaining a working knowledge of the law as it applies to business practices in the United States, you can better protect both your personal and business interests.
Media: The textbook is available in braille and on cassette. The study guide is available in large print, braille, and cassette.
Organization: "Business Law 2" includes the second half of the book titled, Basic Business Law. It contains four units, for a total of 14 chapters.
Credit: 1/2 unit
Course Details
Prerequisites: "Business Law 1"
Overview: Five assignments are submitted to the instructor.
Grading: Letter grade A to F
Average Completion Time: approximately 9 months
Supplementary Course Materials: none
Back to TopOBJECTIVES AND CONTENT
Unit 1 includes four chapters:
After completing Chapter 19, you will be able to:
a. briefly describe how the criminal justice system works
b. identify crimes that frequently affect business operations
After completing Chapter 20, you will be able to:
a. explain the purpose of the law of sales and the Uniform Commercial Code
b. describe the situations, actions, and documents to which the law of sales
are applied.
After completing Chapter 21, you will be able to:
a. describe the elements of sales contracts that pertain to performance requirements,
shipment, and rejected goods
b. discuss who is the owner and who is responsible for loss in various types
of sale agreements
After completing Chapter 22, you will be able to:
a. discuss factors that affect the validity of express and implied warranties
b. describe a warranty of merchantability and a warranty of fitness
c. explain how a disclaimer may affect the sale of goods and services
d. identify the purpose and basic provisions of consumer protection warranty
legislation as it applies to the following:
Unit 2 includes three chapters:
After completing Chapter 23, you will be able to:
a. describe various types of liens and their functions
b. explain how various types of mortgages work
After completing Chapter 24, you will be able to:
a. explain what is meant by commercial paper
b. distinguish among the various types of commercial paper
c. discuss the requirements necessary for commercial paper to be negotiable
d. discuss factors that may affect the ownership of commercial paper
After completing Chapter 25, you will be able to:
a. discuss factors that affect how commercial paper is negotiated
b. discuss legal defenses available for not paying all or part of the money
due on a negotiable instrument
c. discuss factors that may affect a banking relationship
Unit 3 includes two chapters:
After completing Chapter 26, you will be able to:
a. describe how a partnership operates once it is established
b. identify the terms of a typical partnership agreement
c. list ways that a partnership can be dissolved
d. describe the following special types of business relationships
After completing Chapter 27, you will be able to:
a. discuss how a corporation operates once it is established
b. identify some of the express and implied powers associated with incorporation
c. discuss the authorities, responsibilities, and liabilities of corporate directors
d. identify special types of corporations
e. explain how stocks are issued and how dividends are declared in a corporation
f. describe how a corporation can be dissolved
Unit 4 includes five chapters:
After completing Chapter 28, you will be able to:
a. discuss how a money judgment can benefit a creditor or lender
b. explain how an attachment or garnishment can benefit a creditor or lender
c. describe how secured transactions protect a creditor or lender
d. describe the role of a surety or a guarantor in protecting creditors and
lenders
After completing Chapter 29, you will be able to:
a. describe various means by which debtors are protected from creditors
b. discuss how consumer credit legislation protects and ensures the rights of
debtors
c. discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a composition of creditors
d. describe how bankruptcy operates
After completing Chapter 30, you will be able to:
a. explain how insurance serves to reduce risk for individuals and businesses
b. discuss the function and operation of the following types of insurance
After completing Chapter 31, you will be able to:
a. explain how statutes are compiled and codes are published
b. give examples of each of the following
c. describe the format of a case brief
After completing Chapter 32, you will be able to:
a. explain how the following laws, acts, and issues protect the rights of
employees
