Concise and user-friendly, BUSINESS LAW: TEXT AND EXERCISES, 9E captures basic business law using a straightforward, practical approach. This paperback book offers you and your students one of the most cost-effective choices for understanding contemporary legal concepts within your business law survey course. This edition helps your students master key legal concepts and doctrines, while providing them with practical experience in applying basic legal principles to common business situations. Highlighting the Point features, numbered highlighted examples, and brief summaries of real cases in each chapter illustrate contemporary legal principles in reader-friendly, layperson language. Using a proven formula for success, this edition offers today’s most approachable and practical approach for your business law course.

Part I: THE LAW AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM.
1. Introduction to the Law.
2. Ethics in Business.
3. The Courts and Our Legal System.
4. Constitutional Law.
5. Business Torts.
6. Intellectual Property.
7. Business Crimes.
Part II: CONTRACTS.
8. Introduction to Contracts.
9. Offer and Acceptance.
10. Consideration.
11.Capacity.
12. The Legality of Agreements.
13. Voluntary Consent.
14. Written Contracts.
15. Third Party Rights.
16. Termination and Remedies.
Part III: SALES AND LEASES.
17. Introduction to Sales and Lease Contracts.
18. Title and Risk of Loss.
19. Performance and Breach.
20. Warranties and Product Liability.
21. Consumer Protection.
Part IV: NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS.
22. The Essentials of Negotiability.
23. Negotiable Instruments: Transfer and Liability.
24. Banking in the Digital Age.
Part V: AGENCY AND EMPLOYMENT.
25. Agency Relationships.
26. Employment, Immigration, and Labor Law.
27. Employment Discrimination.
Part VI: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS.
28. Types of Business Organizations.
29. Formation and Ownership of a Corporation.
30. Management of a Corporation.
31. Combining and Dissolving a Corporation.
Part VII: CREDIT AND RISK.
32. Credit and Security.
33. Mortgages.
34. Bankruptcy.
35. Insurance.
Part VIII: PROPERTY.
36. Personal Property.
37. Bailments.
38. Real Property.
39. Landlord and Tenant Law.
40. Wills and Trusts.
Part IX: SPECIAL TOPICS.
41. Administrative Law.
42. Antitrust Law.
43. International and Space Law.
APPENDICES:
Appendix A: Answers to the Issue Spotters.

Concise and user-friendly, BUSINESS LAW: TEXT AND EXERCISES, 9E captures basic business law using a straightforward, practical approach. This paperback book offers you and your students one of the most cost-effective choices for understanding contemporary legal concepts within your business law survey course. This edition helps your students master key legal concepts and doctrines, while providing them with practical experience in applying basic legal principles to common business situations. Highlighting the Point features, numbered highlighted examples, and brief summaries of real cases in each chapter illustrate contemporary legal principles in reader-friendly, layperson language. Using a proven formula for success, this edition offers today’s most approachable and practical approach for your business law course. NEW COVERAGE HIGHLIGHTS THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUSINESS LAW. This timely content addresses the impact of social media throughout Unit 1 chapters. Readers examine social media in Chapter 6, in particular, which focuses on Intellectual Property. TWO NEW SEPARATE CHAPTERS COVER THE COMPLEX TOPIC OF CORPORATIONS. To break down the many aspects of managing and dissolving a corporation into easier discussions, the authors have divided coverage into two separate chapters. Chapter 30 now focuses exclusively on corporate management issues, while Chapter 31 discusses how to combine and terminate a corporation. NEW CHAPTER ADDRESSES CREDIT AND SECURITY. Chapter 32 now provides a condensed, more basic coverage of two important, but sometimes difficult, business topics. This edition’s coverage of credit and security emphasizes clear explanations and examples to facilitate easier comprehension. NEW CHAPTER 33 HIGHLIGHTS LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO MORTGAGES. This completely new chapter in this edition emphasizes the importance of mortgages and foreclosure issues in both everyday business and personal life. TWO NEW CHAPTERS FOCUS ON PERSONAL PROPERTY AND BAILMENTS INDIVIDUALLY. To keep each of this edition’s chapters short and focused on one major legal topic, the authors have separated this book’s significant coverage of personal property and bailments into two separate, short chapters. These new chapters 36 and 37 each offer their own unique pedagogy to ensure reader comprehension. NEW COVERAGE ADDRESSES SPACE LAW. To demonstrate the scope of business law to students, this edition now provides a brief discussion of international and U.S. space law in Chapter 43. This authors clearly emphasize how business law affects space programs and technology. NEW "STRAIGHT TO THE POINT" SECTIONS IN EVERY CHAPTER EMPHASIZE KEY CONCEPTS. This completely new end-of-chapter learning feature lists several questions drawn from chapter-specific concepts, definitions, or points of law. This new question-only tool emphasizes key concepts quickly and easily, improving overall review. Helpful cross-references guide students to the related answers in the book. NEW 2016 AND 2017 "REAL LAW" CASE PROBLEMS IN EVERY CHAPTER EMPHASIZE THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. Each chapter includes a new "Real Law" case problem based on a 2016 or 2017 case. Located at the end of each chapter, these new condensed case problems highlight an easier, more basic problem-solving process for students. High-interest cases emphasize a specific point of law from the chapter with helpful cross-references to the answers in the text. NEW ETHICAL QUESTIONS BASED ON A 2017 CASE APPEAR IN NEARLY EVERY CHAPTER. To highlight the evolving, important issue of business ethics, this edition includes a new Ethical Question in most chapters. These new case-based problems challenge students to carefully consider how to apply ethics in certain real business situations.