Business Laws

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Description
>    Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
>    Indian Partnership Act, 1932
>    Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008
>    Competition Act, 2002
Business Laws enfolds within its covers four important enactments, namely, Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881; Indian Partnership Act 1932; Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 and the Competition Act, 2002. These are generally found to be technical and difficult to grasp by law students who are new to the subject. This book gives the reader a simplified insight into the various technical and legal issues of these Acts in an easily understandable form. Simplified examples and landmark judicial decisions, both Indian and foreign, are referred to explain the concepts to the students.
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Contents
UNIT I — NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS ACT
Chapter 1    Preliminary
Chapter 2    Negotiable Instrument: Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange & Cheque
Chapter 3    Parties to Notes, Bills and Cheques and their Liabilities
Chapter 4    Holder in due course 
Chapter 5    Crossing of Cheques
Chapter 6    Components of Cheque, Filling and types of Cheques
Chapter 7    Negotiation of Negotiable Instruments
Chapter 8    Of Payment and Interest
Chapter 9    Of Presentment
Chapter 10  Of Discharge from Liability on Notes, Bills and Cheques
Chapter 11   Ways of Dishonour of NI and Notice of Dishonour
Chapter 12  Of Noting and Protest
Chapter 13  Of Acceptance and Payment for Honour and reference in case of need
Chapter 14  Of Reasonable time
Chapter 15  Of Compensation
UNIT II — PARTNERSHIP ACT
Chapter 1    Nature and Definition 
Chapter 2    Types of Partnership Firm and Partners
Chapter 3    Relations of Partners — Inter se
Chapter 4    Relations of Partners with Third Person
Chapter 5    Incoming and Outgoing Partners
Chapter 6    Dissolution of a Firm 
Chapter 7    Registration of Firms
Chapter 8    Miscellaneous Provisions
UNIT III — LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP
Chapter 1    Basic Concepts
Chapter 2    Nature of LLP
Chapter 3    Incorporation of LLP and Matters Incidental Thereto
Chapter 4    Partners and their Relations Inter Se
Chapter 5    Extent and Limitation of Liability of LLP and Partners
Chapter 6    Contributions
Chapter 7    Financial Disclosures
Chapter 8    Assignment and Transfer of Partnership Rights
Chapter 9    Investigation
Chapter 10    Conversion to LLP
Chapter 11    Foreign LLPs
Chapter 12    Compromise, Arrangement or reconstruction of LLPs
Chapter 13    Winding Up and Dissolution
Chapter 14    Miscellaneous
Chapter 15    LLP Fee Details
UNIT IV — COMPETITION ACT
Chapter 1    Preliminary
Chapter 2    Prohibition of Certain Agreements, Abuse of Dominant Position and Regulation of Combinations
Chapter 3    Competition Commission of India
Chapter 4    Duties, Powers and Functions of Competition Commission
Chapter 5    Duties of Director General
Chapter 6    Penalties
Chapter 7    Competition Advocacy
Chapter 8    Finance, Accounts and Audit
Chapter 9    Appellate Tribunal
Chapter 10    Miscellaneous
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Author Details
Dr. (Mrs.) Jyoti Rattan, Professor, Department of Laws, Panjab University, Chandigarh, is a topper in Law and a Gold Medalist in LL.M, Ph.D. in Law and M.Sc. in Chemistry. Her areas of interest have been Taxation laws, Cyber Law, Law of Contract, RTI and International Law. Dr. Rattan has written books on Taxation Laws, Cyber Law, RTI, International Law and Corporate Law. She has also written several research articles on Taxation Laws, Cyber Law and International Law areas besides on Inter-disciplinary Law and Administrative issues, published in reputed journals including Sage Open. She has presented papers and won awards at various national and international Conferences in India and abroad including the 91st Indian Science Congress; 26th International Congress of Administrative Sciences, Seoul, Korea, 2004; Third Regional International Conference; International Institute of Administrative Sciences (Belgium), Monterrey, Mexico, 2006 and 27th International Congress of Administrative Sciences, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 2007 and 2011 International Conference of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (HAS), held at Lausanne, Switzerland, 2011. Dr. Rattan's various papers have been selected for oral presentation, i.e., lASIA's Annual Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 5th International Conference on Information Law 2012, organised by the Ionian University and the International Society for Ethics and Technology (INSEIT) (US), in Greece; 13th International Winelands Conference 2012, Research Congress Centre of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Mostertsdrift, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Istanbul, 9th Academic Conference organised by the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences from 13 April 2014 to 16 April 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey; the 2014 lASIAAnnual Conference on Good Governance: the Position of Students, Scholars and Practitioners, Port Elizabeth, South Africa; 2014 International Congress of IIAS, Ifrane, Morocco; EGPA Annual Conference 2017 PSG XVIII on Justice and Court Administration held from 30 August to 1 September in Bovisa (Milan); 2018 Congress of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (MAS), Belgium, organized in Tunis, Tunisia, 25-29 June, 2018.
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