Chabot College
Course Outline for Business 10
BUSINESS LAW
Fall, 2002
Replaced Fall 2006
Catalog Description:
10 -
Business Law
4 units
Legal setting in which business operates, with emphasis on legal reasoning and
resolution, contracts, agency, partnerships and corporations. May be offered in
Distance Education format. 4 hours.
Prerequisite Skills:
None
Expected Outcomes for Students:
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
1.
discuss background of law with emphasis on commercial transactions and
contract law;
2. define some major contributions of English Common Law to Business Law;
3. discuss alternative ways to settle;
4. describe how some cases must be brought to court, legal procedures and
methods involved, court decisions, appeal, and something of the appellate
process;
5. define aspects of contract law, private law enforceable in court;
6. discuss how agency relationships are established, what is expected of both the
principal and the agent, and why this concept is so important to a business
organization;
7. discuss how partnerships operate as an entity, how responsibility is established
and how uniform partnership laws apply;
8. discuss how corporations are established, responsibility established and held
accountable;
9. discuss financial analysis and reporting;
10. discuss the real value of professional legal counsel.
Course Content:
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Background of law, courts, and ways to resolve conflict
The law of contracts
a. nature of contracts
b. offer and acceptance
c. consideration
d. voidable contracts
e. unenforceable contracts
f.
performance
g. rights of third parties
i.
discharge, breach, and remedies
Principle and agency law
a. establishment and significance
b. responsibilities of parties
c. termination of agency
Partnerships
a
types and establishment
b. responsibilities and accountability
c. termination of a partnership
Corporations
a. types and formation
b. operation and accountability
c. expansion and contraction
d. dissolution and termination
Chabot College
Course Outline for Business 10, Page 2
Business Law
Fall 2002
Methods of Presentation:
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Lectures
Discussion
Analysis of cases
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
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Typical Assignments
a. Case analyses
b. Student response to class material and discussion
Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
a. Midterm examination
b. Final examination
c. Case assignments
Textbook(s) Typical:
WEST's LAW, Clarkson, Miller, Jentz and Cross, West Publishing, 1999
BUSINESS LAW, Mark E. Roszkowski, Prentice Hall, 2002
CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS LAW, Henry R. Cheeseman, Prentice Hall, 2000
BUSINESS LAW, Goldman and Sigismond, Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Special Student Materials:
None
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