ABA Guide to Consumer Law
This book helps you understand the everyday transactions that make up economic life, and sets out the basic rights and obligations of people playing the free-enterprise game. When you've better informed, your choices will be greater and you'll get the most for your money. And the better able you are to protect what you earn—by spending or investing it wisely—the more opportunity you'll have to enjoy the rewards of your hard work.
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Ch. 1: Who, What, When, and How: How Consumer Law Fits into the Big PictureCh. 2: Fundamentals of Contract Law: How to Know When You’ve “Got a Deal”
Ch. 3: Bars to a Contract: How to Know When It’s “No Deal”
Ch. 4: Special Contract Terms: Waivers, Forum-Selection Clauses, and Other Wrinkles
Ch. 5: Step Right Up: Advertising and Your Rights
Ch. 6: The Postman’s Knock: Buying by Mail, Phone, Fax, and Computer
Ch. 7: The Lease You Can Do: Residential Leases
Ch. 8: Guard Duty: Warranties
Ch. 9: The Wheels of Life: Automobile Sales, Leases, And Repairs
Ch. 10: Something Borrowed: Consumer Credit
Ch. 11: Where the Heart Is: Buying and Selling a Home
Ch. 12: Security Nets: Insurance
Ch. 13: The Consumer Minefield: Contracts in Context
Ch. 14: The Consumer Superhighway: Consumer Rights in the Computer Age
Ch. 15: And Let Slip the Dogs of Law: Breach of Contract and Remedies