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Includes a detailed substantive discussion of estate and gift taxation, including the generation-skipping transfer tax, marital deduction, powers of appointment, portability of the deceased spousal exclusion amount, valuation, disclaimers, and computation and payment of the taxes. The book includes 100 multiple choice review questions and answers.

Discusses taxation of partnerships, including current partnership income, contributions of property to partnership, sale of partnership interest, distributions, and liquidations, as well as the taxation of corporations, including formation, corporate distributions, sales of stock and assets, and reorganizations, S corporations.

Discusses coverage of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9 and the creation of a security interest, including attachment, security agreements, value, and the debtor's rights in the collateral. Also included are perfection, filing, priorities, bankruptcy proceedings and Article 9, default proceedings, and bulk transfers.

Topics covered in this outline include types of commercial paper, negotiability, negotiation, holders in due course, and claims and defenses on negotiable instruments, including real defenses and personal defenses. Also discussed are liability of the parties, bank deposits and collections, forgery or alteration of negotiable instruments, and electronic banking.

Discusses Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 2, sales contract (including offer and acceptance, parol evidence rule, statute of frauds, assignment and delegation, and revision of contract terms). Also covered are types of sales, including cash sale transactions, auctions, "sale or return", and "sale on approval" transactions, express and implied warranties, and privity.

A criminal procedure outline that highlights all of the key criminal procedure decisions from the US Supreme Court in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand format that includes check lists, visual aids, and practice exam questions (and answers) - both essay and short answer.

This outline discusses consideration, mutual assent, defenses, third-party beneficiaries, and assignment of rights and delgation of duties. It also covers conditions, substantial performance, material v. minor breach, anticipatory breach, impossibility, discharge, and remedies. Covers formalities, De Jure v.

Discusses consideration (including promissory estoppel and past consideration), offer and acceptance, interpretation, defenses (including mistake, fraud, duress, unconscionability, the Statute of Frauds, and illegality), third-party beneficiaries, assignment of rights, and delegation of duties.

The topics covered in Agency, Partnership, and Limited Liability Companies are rights and liabilities between principal and agent (including agent's fiduciary duty, principal's right to indemnification), contractual rights between principal and third persons (including creation of agency relationship, authority of agent, scope of authority, termination of authority, ratification, liability on agents contracts), and tort liability (including respondeat superior, master-servant relationship, scope of employment). Also included are property rights of partner, formation of partnership, relations between partners (including fiduciary duty), authority of partner to bind partnership, dissolution and winding up of partnership. Formation, operation, and dissolution of limited partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as mergers and conversions of these entities, are also covered.

Provides a comprehensive outline of income tax law with detailed explanations of relevant law, capsule summary, and exam tips.

Discusses Article III courts, the ""case or controversy"" requirement, justiciability, advisory opinions, political questions, and ripeness. The book also includes mootness, standing, congressional power over federal court jurisdiction, Supreme Court jurisdiction, district court subject matter jurisdiction, and pendent and ancillary jurisdiction.

Covers court systems, precedent, case reporting system, statutes, constitutions, and legislative history, and secondary sources. Also discussed are administrative agencies, Shepard's Citations, KeyCite, online legal research, reading and understanding a case, using legal source books, guidelines for legal writing, and organising your research.