Law in Society

• Companies that run telemarketing scams often charge for their service through
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• Property that has been discarded by the owner without the intent to reclaim ownership

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• Advertising a nonexistent bargain to lure customers and then selling the customers more expensive merchandise.
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• Occurs when a landlord who deprives a tenant of electricity.

• Consumer Product
Safety Act-
• This act protects you from unreasonable risk of injury while using consumer products that are sold in interstate commerce.
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• A right granted to an author, composer, photographer, or artist to exclusively publish and sell an artistic or literary work.

• Donor –
• The person
a gift
• Equal Credit
Opportunity Act – prevents credit issuers from discriminating against applicants because of gender, marital status, age, religion, race, national origin, or because they get public assistance income.

• Fair Credit Billing
Act –
• Establishes a procedure for the prompt handling of billing disputes
• Fair Credit
Collection Practices
Act – This act makes it illegal for debt collectors to threaten consumers.

• Fair Credit
Reporting Act –
• Helps you know the source of a credit report and to correct any wrong information in it.
• Fair Debt Collection
Practices Act –
• Makes it illegal for debt collectors to threaten consumers with violence, to use obscene language, or to contact consumers at inconvenient times or places to collect debts

• Federal Trade
Commission Act –
• Protects a business from the wrongful acts of unfairly competing companies
• Fixture –
• This becomes part of the real property and may not be removed when it has been installed in such a way that removal would deface a room or building.

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• How many days do you have to cancel a contract made with a door to door salesman?
• Intangible Personal
Property – has no substance and cannot be touched.
• cooling days off rule

• Intellectual property examples:
• Patents
• Copyrights
• Trademarks
• Landlord – owns real property and rents it to someone.

• Landlord duties –
• Refrain from discrimination,
• Maintain the premises
• Deliver peaceful possession
• Lease –
• The agreement that creates the landlordtenant relationship

• Lessee – A tenant under a lease of real property.
• Lessor – A landlord who leases real property to a tenant.

• Misbranded –
• A food or drug with false or misleading labeling or packaging.
• Personal Property –
• Anything that can be owned other than real estate.

• Product Liability
• The principle where manufacturers and sellers are accountable for injuries caused by unsafe or defective products
• Robinson-Patman
Act –
• Sellers must treat all buyers equally.

• Sublease –
• Those items of personal property brought on the land by the tenant that are necessary to carry on the trade or business to which the land will be devoted.
• Tenancy –
• An eviction that occurs when the landlord breaches his or her duties under the lease.

• Tenancy at will –
• An interest in real property that continues for an indefinite period of time.
• Tenant Duties:
• Abide by the Terms of the Lease
• Avoid Waste
• Return Fixtures

• Trademark –
• A distinctive mark, symbol, or slogan used by a business to identify them from products sold by others.
• Waste –
• Is anything beyond reasonable wear and tear to rental property.

• Who is responsible for the injuries caused by a defect in a common area?
• Example:
• Torn carpet