Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Contracts
The law of modern commercial practices
3 volumes. Looseleaf. Updated annually.
This title contains official code text and provides detailed analysis of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Articles 1 through 9. It covers the governing law and principles and includes expert commentary on commercial law practices, encompassing historical development of modern commercial practices, consumer product warranties, and the Magnuson-Moss Federal Warranty Act attached to the law of sales, warranties, barter, merchant law, commercial paper, bank deposits and collections, letters of credit, bulk sales and transfers, warehouse receipts, bills of lading and other documents, investment securities, secured transactions, sales of accounts, and chattel paper. It includes analysis and discussion of terms and techniques involved in commercial law practice.