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        • UNDERSTANDING WARRANTIES
      • Dealing with debt
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          • Chapter 7 – Bankruptcy Basics
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          • Chapter 13 – Bankruptcy Basics
        • Credit Repair: Self Help May Be Best
        • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
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      • Government Surveillance
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      • How can I stop a payday lender from electronically taking money out of my bank or credit union account?
      • Jury Nullification: The Top Secret Constitutional Right
        • What a Grand Jury Does
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        • How Officers Trick People Into Giving Up their Miranda Rights
        • How to Invoke the Miranda Rights
        • The Rights of Minors to Remain Silent and to See a Lawyer
        • What to Watch Out For, When You Remain Silent and Ask to See a Lawyer
        • When the Miranda Rights Must be Read to a Suspect
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        • What if police say they smell marijuana?
        • When can police search your car?
        • Top 4 Traffic Ticket Myths
        • What are my rights at various “checkpoints”?
      • What are the “rules of evidence”?
        • Necessity Defense
        • What is “clear and convincing evidence”?
        • What is an “affirmative defense”?
          • How are jurisdiction and venue used as affirmative defenses?
        • What is the Erie Doctrine?
      • What does it mean when a law is “void for vagueness” or “overbroad”?
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      • What To Do When Car Rental Reservations Aren’t Honored
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    • Free Self-Study Business Law Course
      • Foreword
      • Chapter 1 – Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
      • Chapter 2 – Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
      • Chapter 3 – Courts and the Legal Process
      • Chapter 4 – Constitutional Law and US Commerce
      • Chapter 5 – Administrative Law
      • Chapter 6 – Criminal Law
      • Chapter 7 – Introduction to Tort Law
      • Chapter 8 – Introduction to Contract Law
      • Chapter 9 – The Agreement
      • Chapter 10 – Real Assent
      • Chapter 11 – Consideration
      • Chapter 12 – Legality
      • Chapter 13 – Form and Meaning
      • Chapter 14 – Third-Party Rights
      • Chapter 15 – Discharge of Obligations
      • Chapter 16 – Remedies
      • Chapter 17 – Introduction to Sales and Leases
      • Chapter 18 – Title and Risk of Loss
      • Chapter 19 – Performance and Remedies
      • Chapter 20 – Products Liability
      • Chapter 21 – Bailments and the Storage, Shipment, and Leasing of Goods
      • Chapter 22 – Nature and Form of Commercial Paper
      • Chapter 23 – Negotiation of Commercial Paper
      • Chapter 24 – Holder in Due Course and Defenses
      • Chapter 25 – Liability and Discharge
      • Chapter 26 – Legal Aspects of Banking
      • Chapter 27 – Consumer Credit Transactions
      • Chapter 28 – Secured Transactions and Suretyship
      • Chapter 29 – Mortgages and Nonconsensual Liens
      • Chapter 30 – Bankruptcy
      • Chapter 31 – Introduction to Property: Personal Property and Fixtures
      • Chapter 32 – Intellectual Property
      • Chapter 33 – The Nature and Regulation of Real Estate and the Environment
      • Chapter 34 – The Transfer of Real Estate by Sale
      • Chapter 35 – Landlord and Tenant Law
      • Chapter 36 – Estate Planning: Wills, Estates, and Trusts
      • Chapter 37 – Insurance
      • Chapter 38 – Relationships between Principal and Agent
      • Chapter 39 – Liability of Principal and Agent; Termination of Agency
      • Chapter 40 – Partnerships: General Characteristics and Formation
      • Chapter 41 – Partnership Operation and Termination
      • Chapter 42 – Hybrid Business Forms
      • Chapter 43 – Corporation: General Characteristics and Formation
      • Chapter 44 – Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance
      • Chapter 45 – Corporate Powers and Management
      • Chapter 46 – Securities Regulation
      • Chapter 47 – Corporate Expansion, State and Federal Regulation of Foreign Corporations, and Corporate Dissolution
      • Chapter 48 – Antitrust Law
      • Chapter 49 – Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission
      • Chapter 50 – Employment Law
      • Chapter 51 – Labor-Management Relations
      • Chapter 52 – International Law
      • Chapter 53 – Contracts
    • Protester Rights
      • Letter from Birmingham Jail
      • Protest Songs Inspired by Police Killings
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    • Introduction to Criminal Law
      • Foreward
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1 – Introduction to Criminal Law
      • Chapter 2 – The Legal System in the United States
      • Chapter 3 – Constitutional Protections
      • Chapter 4 – The Elements of a Crime
      • Chapter 5 – Criminal Defenses, Part 1
      • Chapter 6 – Criminal Defenses, Part 2
      • Chapter 7 – Parties to Crime
      • Chapter 8 – Inchoate Offenses
      • Chapter 9 – Criminal Homicide
      • Chapter 10 – Sex Offenses and Crimes Involving Force, Fear, and Physical Restraint
      • Chapter 11 – Crimes against Property
      • Chapter 12 – Crimes against the Public
      • Chapter 13 – Crimes against the Government
      • Chapter 14 -Appendix A: Case Listings
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      • Up From Slavery
      • The Miseducation of The Negro
      • The Trial – by Franz Kafka
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      • The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation
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      • Ballot or the Bullet
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      • None Dare Call It Conspiracy
        • Billionaire Overthrow of US Government
        • War is a Racket
      • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom;
      • The Souls of Black Folk
        • “A NEGRO NATION WITHIN A NATION”
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      • Goodbye Uncle Tom
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      • Slavery by Another Name
      • Slavery Isn’t Over They Just Changed What They Called It
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  • Brief History of US Law
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  • The Rights of Minors to Remain Silent and to See a Lawyer
  • How Officers Trick People Into Giving Up their Miranda Rights
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