Property Regulation and Commercial Paper

Property, Regulation and Commercial Paper

Full Description

To allow for the more orderly transfer of legal interests, societies have created laws that describe the different types of interests and how to transfer such interests. This course focuses on property interests, the impact of government regulations and how to create and use negotiable instruments. For this Basic Completion course, students have 24/7 access to on-line testing materials. Each chapter of text in a course has twenty questions, multiple choice, true-false or a combination thereof. Students may query the instructor up to three times, via e-mail, regarding course content. For the Advanced Completion course enrollment, students have unlimited access to the instructor via e-mail. TEXT: West`s Business Law (Text, Cases, Legal, Ethical and International Environment), by Kenneth W. Clarkson, Roger Leroy Miller, Gaylord A. Jentz and Frank B. Cross. Ninth Edition. West Educational Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN: 0-324-15282-5

Outcomes:

After having completed this course, students will have: . discovered the different forms of property and its ownership; . see the role that bailments play in our society; . understand how regulation strikes a balance between creating responses to and taking into account business activity; . examine what constitutes a negotiable instrument; and . follow the process involved in the transfer of negotiable instruments

Assessment:

Students will complete open-book multiple choice exams on each chapter of material in the course (where the course consists of 9 chapters of material); Completion of each chapter is based on achieving a score of 70% or more on tests provided.

Week 1 (Students using the 8th Edition need to go to the course site for reading assignments)

PROPERTY

Personal Property and Bailments (Chapter 47); QUIZ

Real Property (Chapter 48); QUIZ
Landlord-Tenant Relationships (Chapter 49); QUIZ Week 2 REGULATORY LAW

Constitutional Authority to Regulate Business; Chapter 4); QUIZ
Administrative Law (Chapter 43); QUIZ Week 3 Consumer Law (Chapter 44); QUIZ

Environmental Law (Chapter 45); QUIZ

Antitrust Law (Chapter 46); QUIZ Week 4 NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS

The Function and Creation of Negotiable Instruments (Chapter 24); QUIZ
Checks, the Banking System, and E-Money (Chapter 27) Quiz

Contact Hours: 24