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This popular text combines a traditional case focus with clear and concise coverage of a wide range of up-to-date topics. Cases are edited, with over 40% new to this edition. New JurisPrudence? feature highlights humorous or odd cases and legal events related to the subject at hand. Internet resources and citations have been incorporated; most chapters conclude with an optional Internet research assignment. New chapters include Alternative Dispute Resolution (Ch. 4); Property (Ch. 9); Debtor/Creditor Relations (Ch. 12); and Business Torts (Ch. 8). The case-holding section has been eliminated from each case, and the number of end-of-chapter case questions has been doubled.