United Kingdom commercial law

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United Kingdom commercial law is the law which regulates the sale and purchase of goods and services, when doing business in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 History 2 Sale of Goods 3 Consumer law 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

• Lex Mercatoria

[edit] Sale of Goods

Main article: Sale of Goods Act 1979

• Sale of Goods Act 1979, the primary statute applicable to the sale of goods.

• Agency (law)
• Title retention clause

• United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
• UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

[edit] Consumer law

• Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
• Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999
• Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000

[edit] See also

• International commercial law
• Islamic Commercial Law

• UK competition law
• UK labour law
• UK company law

• European Union Value Added Tax
• Bill of lading
• Principal (commercial law)

• Centre for Commercial Law Studies
• European Centre for Comparative Commercial and Company Law

[edit] References

• Roy Goode, Commercial law (2004) Penguin, 3rd Ed.

[edit] External links

• Official text of the statute as amended and in force today within the United Kingdom, from the UK Statute Law Database, Sale of Goods Act 1979

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