Talk:Outline of commercial law

Reordering
BoNoMoJo, I find your re-ordering of the business entity section of the list of business law topics confusing. It originally included links to the various forms of legal entities, for example, corporations, partnerships, trusts, cooperatives, etc. All the general principles that were not specific to one of these forms of ownership were in the main part of the list. Now I see that you have deleted cooperatives, included general legal principles like agency theory and fiduciary duty as a subcategory of legal entities, and made partnership a subcategory of fiduciary duty. Please explain. mydogategodshat 19:19, 11 May 2004 (UTC)


 * AKAIK the article did not link to cooperatives when I edited it, but if it was deleted that was accidental. The article still 456456continues to link to various forms of legal entities...all I have done is reorganize it and add a few other topics. Agency and fiduciary have not been deleted, but renamed. Partnerships are a subcategory of Fiduciary: a partner is a fiduciary to his partners and a partnership creates a fiduciary relationship. Note that until relatively recently a partnership was merely a relationship and not a "legal entity"; e.g. you could sue a partner in name, but you could not sue a partnership in name because it was thought a partnership did not have a separate existence in addition to its partners. This is the current way of looking at trusts and estates. Trusts and estates are not really "legal entities"; they do not have an existence separate from their fiduciaries (trustees and executors); e.g. you cannot sue a trust in its own name, you must sue the trustee in his/its capacity as trustee. Partners, partnerships, trustees, executors and agents are all fiduciaries. Once you understand that, the way I organized it makes more sense....and, yes, I am a lawyer. B 19:48, May 11, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation. Your organizational scheme may not seem intuitively obvious to a non-lawyer like myself, but your rationale is impeccably logical. Keep up the good work. mydogategodshat 07:04, 12 May 2004 (UTC)


 * There are other ways that this list could be organized, alphabetical, for example. I am not opposed to organizing this list in other ways so long as it makes sense. My reorganization is just a suggestion. B 13:35, May 13, 2004 (UTC)


 * I am happy with your organization. mydogategodshat 16:25, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Should their be a topic for insurance law? I know no one has written one yet, but presumably this will get tackled eventually. I may have a punt myself when I am feeling stronger, although it is not my principle field. Legis 08:06, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Blue laws ???
Why are "blue laws" included here? Unless there's another meaning I'm not aware of AND the link points to the wrong article, blue laws are antiquated common law on the east coast that used to enforce morality. For example, it used to be illegal and punishible by jail time to commit adultry, instead of just a private matter between husband and life, the state was involved. I don't see any relavance for business law?

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines
"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)