Course Description
Title I. The exercise of commercial entrepreneurs in general.
Chapter I.
1. Introduction to Commercial Law.
2. The commercial law as the law 'around' the business.
Chapter II. Commercial enterprise and Commercial entrepreneurs.
1. Commercial entrepreneurs and acts of commerce.
Chapter III. Commercial entrepreneurs.
1. Commercial capacity, Impediments and incompatibilities.
2. Legitimacy.
3. Obligations of commercial entrepreneurs.
3.1. Firm.
3.2. Commercial bookkeeping.
3.3. Commercial register.
3.4. Render accounts.
Chapter IV. Representation in the performance of an enterprise.
1. Managers.
2. Assistants of an entrepreneur.
Chapter V. Liability for the exercise of an commercial enterprise.
1. Liability for debts contracted in the exercise of an enterprise.
2. Liability for defective products.
Chapter VI. A commercial enterprise as an object of business.
1. The right over the enterprise and the rights on the assets of the enterprise.
2. The commercial enterprise as object of contracts.
2.1. The transfer of the commercial enterprise.
2.2. Lease of commercial enterprise.
3. Usufruct of commercial enterprise.
4. Pledge of commercial enterprise.
Chapter VII. Trade distinctive signs.
1. Firm (remission).
2. Name and emblem.
3. Trademark.
Chapter VIII. Competition legal discipline.
1. Competition in general.
2. Unfair competition.
Title II. Negotiable instruments.
Chapter I. Negotiable instrument in general.
Chapter II. Bill of exchange.
1. Typical notes of the obligation incorporated in a negotiable instrument.
2. Requisites of the bill of exchange.
2.1. Essential requisites.
2.2. Non essential requisites.
3. Legal institutes of the Bill of Exchange.
3.1. Drawing.
3.2. Endorsement.
3.3. Acceptance.
3.4. 'Aval'.
3.5. Types of maturity.
3.6. Recourse.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Students will be able to identify the basics of commercial law (commercial act, entrepreneur, and commercial enterprise, etc.), and the basics of unfair completion and intellectual property law.
CILO-2: Students will be able to express the basic notions of negotiable instruments, e.g. bill of exchange.
CILO-3: Students will be able to identify the enterprise as the object of a legal relationship and the system of legal transactions in which the enterprise as a whole is the object.