United Kingdom commercial law

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United Kingdom commercial law is the law which regulates the sale and purchase of goods and services, when doing business in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History 2 Personal property 3 Law of agency 3.1 Creation and authority of agents 3.2 Disclosed and undisclosed agency 3.3 Agent duties and rights 3.4 Termination of agency 4 Sale of Goods 5 International sales 6 Bills of exchange and banking 7 Assignment and receivables 8 Commercial credit and security 8.1 Possessory security 8.2 Non-possessory security 8.3 Guarantees 9 Insurance law 10 Insolvency law 11 See also 12 References 13 External links

[edit] History

• Lex Mercatoria

[edit] Personal property

• Real property and personal property
• Ownership
• Equitable ownership
• Possession
• Attornment
• Bailment

[edit] Law of agency

[edit] Creation and authority of agents

[edit] Disclosed and undisclosed agency

[edit] Agent duties and rights

[edit] Termination of agency

[edit] Sale of Goods

• Sale of Goods Act 1979, the primary statute applicable to the sale of goods.

• Title retention clause

• United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
• UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

• Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
• Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999
• Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000

[edit] International sales

• United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

• Free alongside ship contract
• Free on board contract
• Cost, insurance, freight contract

[edit] Bills of exchange and banking

• Negotiable instrument
• Bill of exchange
• Bank regulation
• Payment systems
• Cheques

[edit] Assignment and receivables

[edit] Commercial credit and security

[edit] Possessory security

• Pledges
• Liens

[edit] Non-possessory security

• Mortgage
• Equitable charge
• Equitable lien

[edit] Guarantees

[edit] Insurance law

• Life Assurance Act 1774

• uberrimae fidei

• Subrogation

• Marine insurance and Marine Insurance Act 1906

[edit] Insolvency law

[edit] See also

• International commercial law
• Islamic Commercial Law

• UK competition law
• UK labour law
• UK company law

• European Union Value Added Tax
• Bill of lading
• Principal (commercial law)

• Centre for Commercial Law Studies
• European Centre for Comparative Commercial and Company Law

[edit] References

• L Sealy and RJA Hooley, Commercial Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (4th edn OUP, Oxford 2008)
• Roy Goode, Commercial law (3rd edn Penguin, London 2004)

[edit] External links

• Sale of Goods Act 1979 Official text of the statute as amended and in force today within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database

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