business law

Legal rules and principles bearing on business organizations and commercial matters. It regulates various forms of legal business entities, including sole proprietors, partnerships, registered companies with limited liability, agents, and multinational corporations. Nearly all statutory rules governing business organizations are intended to protect creditors or investors. In addition, specific bodies of law regulate commercial transactions, including the sale and carriage of goods (terms and conditions, specific performance, breach of contract, insurance, bills of lading), consumer credit agreements (letters of credit, loans, security, bankruptcy), and relations between employers and employees (wages, conditions of work, health and safety, fringe benefits, and trade unions). It is a broad and continually evolving field. Seealso agency; corporation; debtor and creditor; intellectual property; labour law.

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• Adhesion contract
• Antitrust
• Blue law
• Civil law notary
• Contracts
• Consideration
• Duress
• Warranty
• Breach of contract
• Remedy
• Lien
• Juristic person
• Company (law)
• Corporate law
• Corporation
• Incorporation (business)
• Delaware corporation (U.S.)
• Limited liability company
• Fiduciary
• Partnership
• Agency
• Escrow
• Trustee of a trust or executor of an estate; see also trusts and estates
• Charitable trust
• Foundation
• Association
• Cooperative
• Class action
• Cyber law
• Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
• Dispute resolution
• Alternative dispute resolution
• Mediation
• Conciliation
• Negotiation
• Arbitration
• Binding arbitration
• Employment law
• Labor law
• Sexual harassment
• Non-disclosure agreement
• estoppel
• Fraud deterrence
• Industrial design rights
• Intellectual property
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)
• Public domain
• Trade secret
• Patent
• Trademark
• Genericized trademark
• People's Republic of China's trademark law
• copyright
• fair dealing
• Copyright infringement of software
• List of copyright case law
• International trade law
• Law and economics
• Land use
• Legal lexicography
• Law dictionary
• Malpractice
• Notary public
• Negotiable instruments
• Property law
• Real property
• Security interest
• Mechanics lien
• Product liability
• Negligence
• Proximate cause
• Mandatory labelling
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
• Release
• Tax law
• Torts
• Uniform Commercial Code
• mercentile law

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