General Principles of Commercial Law

Author: Liu Jingwei / Liu Yongguang (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book provides an overview of the concepts, basic principles, and development of commercial law, and systematically elaborates on the concepts, basic legal systems, and principles of commercial entities, companies, partnerships, sole proprietorships, foreign-invested enterprises, commercial acts, commercial sales, commercial brokerage, commercial agency, futures trading, banking transactions, and bidding. In China's socialist legal system construction, commercial legislation is the most active field and also the most successful one. From the Foreign Investment Enterprises Law of 1979 to the Company Law of 1993, and then to the Trust Law of 2001, specialized legislation (laws or regulations) has been enacted in most commercial law fields, such as companies, enterprises, securities, negotiable instruments, insurance, maritime law, trusts, guarantees, futures, and bidding. Since commercial law directly reflects the requirements of the market economy, learning and mastering the theoretical knowledge of commercial law can directly serve market economic activities. Therefore, commercial law has been highly valued in legal education and various forms of legal knowledge training, becoming a prominent highlight in legal studies, and commercial law research has also become one of the hot topics in legal theoretical studies. In recent years, the Law Department of Xiamen University has been committed to the development of civil and commercial law disciplines and courses, textbooks, and has organized the writing of a series of civil and commercial law textbooks, including General Principles of Civil Law, Property Law, Debt Law, Intellectual Property Law, Marriage, Family, and Inheritance Law, Commercial Law (Volume I and II), achieving certain results. To further promote the theoretical teaching and research of commercial law, the Law Department of Xiamen University has collaborated with Fujian Provincial Justice Administration Cadre College for the first time, organizing some teachers engaged in civil and commercial law theoretical teaching and research to write this series of commercial law books, aiming to make contributions in the teaching and research of commercial law. The original intention of writing this series of books is to provide undergraduate law students with a relatively complete textbook and reference book on commercial law. Therefore, we particularly emphasize that attention should be paid to systematically elaborating on the basic concepts, fundamental knowledge, and basic theories of various commercial laws in combination with China's legislative and judicial practices, and to as far as possible absorb new achievements in theoretical research. Thus, this series of books can not only serve as teaching materials for commercial law but also as a reading for general readers to understand and master commercial law or the legal knowledge of a specific field of commercial law. This series of books is edited by Liu Jingwei as the chief editor, with Liu Yongguang and Chen Mingtian as deputy editors. General Principles of Commercial Law is one of the books in this series, with specific contributions as follows: Liu Jingwei wrote chapters to VI, and Liu Yongguang wrote chapters VII to XIV. Any shortcomings in this book are welcome to be criticized and corrected by readers and experts.