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"Contracts: The Essential Business Desk Reference provides easy-to-understand explanations of over 300 common contract terms. It also includes information about common negotiating strategies, examples of contract provisions, sample contracts with explanations, tips on amending and modifying agreements, and what to watch out for in a contract. This book is a handy reference for small business owners, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and law students-and anyone...

A groundbreaking exposé that reveals the patterns and practices of a new and more sophisticated style of corruption that has infiltrated every level of society. Anthropologist Janine Wedel unmasks a fast-evolving system of power and influence that is unaccountable to those it is supposed to serve. This insidious form of corruption goes far beyond the usual targets of K Street lobbying or political bribery. The sweep of this new corruption is broader,...

Contracts play a fundamental role in modern society, particularly in a commercial setting, as they protect the interests of the parties to an agreement. Who is the Course Designed for? Agreements feature in many areas of life, especially following the rise of the internet and e-commerce. Many people are doing business online for a living and shall prepare and enter agreements with online consumers, partners and suppliers. Other people work in...

From ancient ages, the commercial transactions were taking place under the customs regulating the subject and the obligations of parties etc.. These customs culminated into the Law of contracts, when the same was codified. The Law of Contracts in India defines Contract as an agreement enforceable by law, which offers personal rights, and imposes personal obligations, which the law protects and enforces against the parties to the agreement. The general...

Do you know why I pulled you over? That is the epitome of a rhetorical question, and an estimated 100,000 people hear those eight words every day in the United States for scoring a speeding ticket. Some of those tickets may be unwarranted, but only 5 percent of folks try to contest their ticket. Luckily, there is a way you can successfully fight in traffic court without dishing out the dough for an attorney. How to Win Your Case In Traffic Court Without...

Two friends in their early twenties living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military.

En Derecho civil se entiende por actos y contratos irregulares aquellos cuya esencia exige un objeto infungible, pero que su autor o partes expresamente y sin propósito de simulación, hacen recaer sobre fungibles. En este interesante libro, el destacado jurista Alejandro Guzmán Brito, ofrece un análisis profundo y actualizado sobre la teoría general de la irregularidad y un examen en detalle de este tipo de operaciones.

Los continuos avances tecnológicos, la proliferación de una fuerza de trabajo global, junto a cambios demográficos y sociales que afectan a las comunidades en general, son factores claves que han revolucionado el mundo laboral. Del mismo modo, las relaciones laborales también han diversificado sus prácticas y modos de trabajo, lo que sin dudas también genera nuevos desafíos en materia de derechos y obligaciones, tanto de trabajadores como empleadores....

Un manuel pour comprendre les fondements du système immobilier. Ce manuel a pour but de retracer le circuit d'un acte de vente immobilière depuis l'ouverture du dossier avec la mise en vente d'un bien jusqu'à la clture du compte client après la signature de l'acte authentique et la publication de l'acte au service de publicité foncière. Tous les contrats liés au droit immobilier sont étudiés: mandat de vente, promesse unilatérale de vente,...

Cet ouvrage, sous la coordination de Paul Alain Foriers, apporte aux praticiens du droit une information concrète sur les conditions générales de vente: • Quel avocat, quel juge, ne s'est interrogé sur les principes qui gouvernent ces clauses types, leur régularité, notamment au regard du droit de la consommation, leur opposabilité, particulièrement en droit international? • Quel praticien n'a pas été confronté à devoir les rédiger? Trois...