Consumer Sales Law
The Law Relating to Consumer Sales and Financing of Goods
3rd Edition
Published on 31. December 2023
Book
Hardback
672 pages
978-0-415-63889-0 (ISBN)
Description
Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive and informative textbook provides readers with an overview of current consumer sales law and equips them with a view of how this fast-changing subject has, and will continue to develop through the inclusion of new reform proposals. This book analyzes the interaction of consumer sales law with politics, the appeal of consumer protection to politicians and the influence of the European Union and the EU Directives. It also discusses the removal of consumer sales law from its traditional realm of legal professionals to consumer and debt advisors and public officials with the power to seek injunctions to protect consumers. In addition to this, it: fully integrates both the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive 2005 and the Consumer Credit Act 2006 into the basic 1974 Act explains how the sale of Goods Act 1979 has been modified by the 1999 Directive combines the public protection of consumers under the Enterprise Act 2002 (e.g. Office of Fair Trading) is supplemented by comprehensive e-updates on its Companion Website, keeping the content current between editions.
Written by an author with forty years experience of teaching sales and finance law to undergraduates, this textbook is an essential tool for all undergraduates studying commercial and consumer sales law.
Written by an author with forty years experience of teaching sales and finance law to undergraduates, this textbook is an essential tool for all undergraduates studying commercial and consumer sales law.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Zeichnung, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-63889-0 (9780415638890)
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Schweitzer Classification
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John Macleod retired from University in 2004, having taught sales and financing law to undergraduates for 40 years. Specialising in payment cards (including credit, charge and debit cards), he was for 20 years chief examiner in the finance industry. In retirement, he has at last found time to get to the bottom of the subject.
Content
CONTENTS
Preface v
Table of statutes xi
Table of statutory instruments xxxvii
Table of cases xxxix
Bibliography lxxi
PART 1 THE NATURE OF THE CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF GOODS
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Subject-matter of the supply contract - goods and price
PART 2 CONSUMER PROTECTION
Chapter 3 Regulation of business
Chapter 4 Consumer protection and the criminal law
Chapter 5 Consumer protection and instalment credit
Chapter 6 Licensing
Chapter 7 Moneylending
PART 3 NEGOTIATING SUPPLY CONTRACTS
Chapter 8 Seeking business
Chapter 9 Formalities of the agreement
Chapter 10 Formation of the agreement
PART 4 THE CONTENTS OF A CONTRACT FOR THE SUPPLY OF GOODS
Chapter 11 Contractual terms
Chapter 12 Undertakings as to title
Chapter 13 Undertakings as to quantity and quality
Chapter 14 Undertakings as to fitness and satisfactory quality
Chapter 15 Other implied terms and obligations
Chapter 16 Financed transactions
Chapter 17 Product Liability
Chapter 18 Exclusions and disclaimers
PART 5 THE CONVEYANCE IN SUPPLY CONTRACTS
Chapter 19 The effects of the contract
Chapter 20 The passing of property
Chapter 21 The transfer of Title
Chapter 22 Risk and impossibility
PART 6 THE PRICE IN SALE AND HIRE PURCHASE CONTRACTS
Chapter 23 Delivery and possession
Chapter 24 The unpaid supplier's possessory rights
Chapter 25 Security for the price
PART 7 DISCHARGE, ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES
Chapter 26 Discharge of contractual obligations
Chapter 27 Remedies of the supplier -"Creditor or owner"
Chapter 28 Enforcement by public authorities
Chapter 29 Remedies of the transferee - "debtor or hirer"
Index
Preface v
Table of statutes xi
Table of statutory instruments xxxvii
Table of cases xxxix
Bibliography lxxi
PART 1 THE NATURE OF THE CONTRACTS FOR THE SUPPLY OF GOODS
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Subject-matter of the supply contract - goods and price
PART 2 CONSUMER PROTECTION
Chapter 3 Regulation of business
Chapter 4 Consumer protection and the criminal law
Chapter 5 Consumer protection and instalment credit
Chapter 6 Licensing
Chapter 7 Moneylending
PART 3 NEGOTIATING SUPPLY CONTRACTS
Chapter 8 Seeking business
Chapter 9 Formalities of the agreement
Chapter 10 Formation of the agreement
PART 4 THE CONTENTS OF A CONTRACT FOR THE SUPPLY OF GOODS
Chapter 11 Contractual terms
Chapter 12 Undertakings as to title
Chapter 13 Undertakings as to quantity and quality
Chapter 14 Undertakings as to fitness and satisfactory quality
Chapter 15 Other implied terms and obligations
Chapter 16 Financed transactions
Chapter 17 Product Liability
Chapter 18 Exclusions and disclaimers
PART 5 THE CONVEYANCE IN SUPPLY CONTRACTS
Chapter 19 The effects of the contract
Chapter 20 The passing of property
Chapter 21 The transfer of Title
Chapter 22 Risk and impossibility
PART 6 THE PRICE IN SALE AND HIRE PURCHASE CONTRACTS
Chapter 23 Delivery and possession
Chapter 24 The unpaid supplier's possessory rights
Chapter 25 Security for the price
PART 7 DISCHARGE, ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIES
Chapter 26 Discharge of contractual obligations
Chapter 27 Remedies of the supplier -"Creditor or owner"
Chapter 28 Enforcement by public authorities
Chapter 29 Remedies of the transferee - "debtor or hirer"
Index