Publisher's Synopsis
The importance of commercial law is reflected by its increasing popularity as a subject of undergraduate study. Designed to fulfil the needs of law students reading for undergraduate degrees, this new book covers all the main topics of commercial law courses. Written by the same authors as the textbook "Business Law", this work shares its critical and contextual approach. The book is transaction-based and designed to show how separate contracts interlock within the context of a transaction. Strong emphasis is placed on an understanding of how contracts are used in a business environment, while the book also seeks to identify common threads running through the law's approach to commercial activity.;It addresses too, some of the novel legal problems created by modern commercial practices, while also covering every aspect of the law from agency to financing commercial transactions, and from insurance to the resolution of commercial disputes.