United Kingdom commercial law is the law which regulates the sale and purchase of goods and services, when doing business in the United Kingdom.
Lex Mercatoria
Hanseatic league
Guild
Mercantilism
Freedom of contract
Laissez faire
Real property and personal property
Ownership
Equitable ownership
Possession
Attornment
Bailment
Commercial contracts
In the case of Watteau v Fenwick, Lord Coleridge CJ on the Queen's Bench concurred with an opinion by Wills J that a third party could hold personally liable a principal who he did know about when he sold cigars to an agent that was acting outside of its authority. Wills J held that "the principal is liable for all the acts of the agent which are within the authority usually confided to an agent of that character, notwithstanding limitations, as between the principal and the agent, put upon that authority." This decision is heavily criticised and doubted, though not entirely overruled in the UK. It is sometimes referred to as "usual authority" (though not in the sense used by Lord Denning MR in Hely-Hutchinson, where it is synonymous with "implied actual authority"). It has been explained as a form of apparent authority, or "inherent agency power".
Hely-Hutchinson v Brayhead Ltd [1968] 1 QB 549
Creation and authority of agents
Disclosed and undisclosed agency
Agent duties and rights
Termination of agency
Sale of Goods Act 1979, the primary statute applicable to the sale of goods.
Property passing and delivery
Title retention clause
Terms, acceptance and rejection
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000
Remedies and duties
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
Bills of exchange and banking
Negotiable instrument
Bill of exchange
Bank regulation
Payment systems
Cheques
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
Free alongside ship contract
Free on board contract
Cost, insurance, freight contract
Pledges
Liens
Mortgage
Equitable charge
Equitable lien
Life Assurance Act 1774
uberrimae fidei
Subrogation
Marine insurance and Marine Insurance Act 1906
