Buisness Law Flashcards
Private law:
contract law
* warranties
* legal capacity
* damages
* family law
* real estate law
* inheritance law
* commercial and business law
* employment law
* property law
Legal subjects:
persons, limited companies, partnerships, trusts
Capacity
to act, to be subject of legal rights, to contract, to commit offences
Property law
who belngs to, wh controls, who disposes
-principles: speciality (only relates to specific asset), absolute right (enforceable against everyone)
-classification: public vs private, movable vs immovable ´, tangible vs intangibles
-categories: unrestricted right in rem, sole owner, coowner, restricted right in rem
-titulus (legal basis), modus (frm of acquisition e.g. physical transfer or transfer by declaration)
-occupation (without intention to keep
-possessin (power over it, intention to keep, protection: action of breach)
-ownership (legal control over thing)
-pledge (right in rem granted to creditor if obligation not satisfied)
-easement (benefit frm another property who tolerates use, you have to abtain from use, needs to be absolutely necessary)
Contracts
direct delcration of intent directed at legal effect
-two parties, offer and acceptances, consent, intention to bound)
-writing orally or implied
-types: sales, transfer of title, loan, tenancy
retention of title
title remains with seller as long as uyer has not paid
errors
root deficiency,
default in performance,
recission of contracts (fraud, threat,), delay,
defects (–> warranty: good free of defects, guarantee –> egal of defect bei delivery or not)
laesio enormis
buyer pays a price more than double of the actual value
damages
causation (caused by action or omission of another),
unlawfulness (breach of law/ contract), connection to unlawfulness (violated rule to intend to protect e.g. drivers license), degrees could be neglect, intent, knowingly),
contributory negligence
contractual liability vs liability in tort:
contractual (brach contract), tort (violation of rules)
Business law:
sole proprietor, partnership, corporatin, associations
-create firm name trade name
-management vs act f of represtentation
-procuration (special from of legal representation in business law, adapted to necessitiers of business transactins)
company law:
partnerships (limited at least one partner,
unlimited personal liability of partner, general at least 2 partners,
unlimited liability of partner),
gmbh und c kg,
silent partnership (undisclosed partnership, no registration), coprorations,
stock corporations
gmbh formation
min share cap 35k,
bodies: shareholders meeting,
managing directre, supervisory board