This short, self-teaching paperback is a superb way to give your students substantive foundation covering all agency and partnership issues. Use it to efficiently manage class time in your Corporations, Business Associations, or Agency and Partnership courses by allowing students to learn key concepts on their own. As part of the Little, Brown Examples and Explanations Series, AGENCY AND PARTNERSHIP: Examples and Explanations combines clear, accessible text with analytical problems and explanations to allow students to test their understanding of the material. The author devotes the first six chapters to coverage of agency And The latter five to partnership. Each chapter progresses from simple to more detailed problem to reinforce learning and give students practice with more complex issues. Other helpful features include: -diagrams that enhance textual discussion -thumbnail lists of key issues regarding RUPA -clear readable format Whether you teach a combination course or a separate Agency and partnership course, give your students a solid background in this important are. Assign or recommend AGENCY AND PARTNERSHIP:Examples and Explanations! Table of Contents Preface Introduction Special Notice PART ONE: AGENCY 1: Introductory Concepts in the Law of Agency 1.1 the Agency Relationship Defined and Exemplified; Its Players Identified 1.2 Creation of the Agency Relationship 1.3 the Relationship of Agency and Contract 1.4 Major Issues in the Law of Agency 2: Binding Principals to Third Parties in Contract and Through Communications 2.1 'Binding the Principal' 2.2 Actual Authority 2.3 Apparent Authority 2.4 Estoppel 2.5 Inherent Agency Power 2.6 Ratification 2.7 Chains of Authority 3: Binding the Principal in Tort 3.1 Overview 3.2 Respondeat Superior 3.3 Liability for Physical Harm Beyond Respondeat Superior 3.4 Torts Not Involving Physical Harm 3.5 Attributing Torts in Complex or Multilevel Relationships 4: Duties and Obligations of Agents and Principals to Each Other and to Third Parties 4.1 Duties and Obligations of the Agent To The Principal 4.2 Duties and Obligations of the Agent to Third Parties 4.3 Duties and Obligations of the Principal To The Agent 4.4 Duties and Obligations of the Principal to Third Parties 5: Termination of the Agency Relationship 5.1 Ending the Agency Relationship 5.2 Power Versus Right in Termination 5.3 Effects of Termination 6: Distinguishing Agency from Other Relationships 6.1 Agency and Other Beneficial Relationships 6.2 Ersatz Agency 6.3 Constructive Agency PART TWO: PARTNERSHIPS 7: Introductory Concepts in the Law of General Partnerships 7.1 the Role and Structure of the Uniform Partnership Act 7.2 Partnership Described 7.3 the Hallmark Consequence of Partnership: Partners' Personal Liability For The Partnership's Debts 7.4 Contesting and Establishing the Existence of a Partnership 7.5 Partnership by Estoppel RUPA Highlights 8: Financial Aspects of a Partnership (Creation and Operation) 8.1 the Practical Background 8.2 the Partner's Basic Return 8.3 Rules for Sharing Profits and Losses 8.4 A Partner's Right to Indemnity 8.5 Remuneration for Labor Provided by Partners To The Partnership 8.6 Remuneration for Capital Provided by Partners To The Partnership 8.7 Special Problems with K-and-L Partnerships 8.8 Property Interests in Partnership Law RUPA Highlights 9: Management Issues and Fiduciary Duties 9.1 the Panoply of Management Rights 9.2 the Right to Know 9.3 the Right to Be Involved in the Business 9.4 the Right to Bind the Partnership 9.5 the Right to Participate in Decision Making and to Veto Some Decisions 9.6 Agreements That Change Management Rights 9.7 Management Duties 9.8 Partner's Fiduciary Du

Eisenberg's An Introduction to Agency, Partnerships and LLC's, Third Edition, a textbook in the University Casebook Series®, focuses on non-corporate business organizations. It includes an appendix that includes major statutes and materials in agency, partnership, and limited liability companies. Its discussion of limited partnerships includes cases and notes on such issues as authority, agreements concerning dissolution, and the obligations of a departing partner.

Rights and Duties Between Principal and Agent, Partners, and Members of an LLC; Vicarious Tort Liability; Express, Implied and Apparent Authority; Inherent Agency Power; Undisclosed Principal; Ratification; Notice, Notification, Imputed Knowledge; Termination of Authority; Partnership Formation, Operation and Termination; Fiduciary Duties Among Partners; Right to an Accounting; Creditors' Rights Against Partners and the Partnership; Dissociation and Dissolution; Winding-Up; Liquidation. Limited Partnership and the LLC: Creation, Operation and Dissolution.

Important features of Business Associations, Fourth Edition, include: * Complete & developed materials on agency & partnership reflecting the authors' view that a good background in agency & partnership principles is important for its own sake, & for the study of corporate law * Problems helpful in illustrating material * Attention to the lawyer as planner, as opposed to litigator or critic.

This is a softbound casebook, affordably priced, designed for use in either a short course on noncorporate business organizations, or as a supplement to Corporations casebooks that have only limited coverage of noncorporate business organizations. The book consists of text plus an extensive Appendix that includes major statutes and materials on agency, partnership, and limited liability companies (LLCs). The text is short, but comprehensive.