Consumer Sales Law: The Law Relating to Consumer Sales and Financing of Goods

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Routledge, Jun 2, 2009 - Law - 1152 pages

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.

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Contents

FINANCED TRANSACTIONS
Liability of the dealer
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Bold references indicate that a direct quote from the judgment has been used
EXCLUSIONS AND DISCLAIMERS
The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
THE EFFECTS OF THE CONTRACT
THE PASSING OF PROPERTY

Other watchdogs
LICENSING
Statutory control of moneylenders
SEEKING BUSINESS
FORMALITIES OF THE AGREEMENT
FORMATION OF THE AGREEMENT
Regulated agreements
CONTRACTUAL TERMS
UNDERTAKINGS AS TO TITLE
UNDERTAKINGS AS TO QUANTITY AND QUALITY
UNDERTAKINGS AS TO FITNESS AND SATISFACTORY QUALITY
OTHER IMPLIED TERMS TRANSACTIONS AND OBLIGATIONS
TRANSFER OF TITLE
Buyers in possession
RISK AND IMPOSSIBILITY
DELIVERY AND PAYMENT
POSSESSION AND REPOSSESSION BY THE SUPPLIER
SECURITY FOR PERFORMANCE
DISCHARGE OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
Building Employers Confederation Agreement
REMEDIES OF THE SUPPLIERCREDITOR OR OWNER
MONEYLENDING
REMEDIES OF THE TRANSFEREEDEBTOR OR HIRER
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About the author (2009)

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.

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