Commercial Law I

Code:

D403 I

Acronym:

DC I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LDB	153	Oficial Study Plan LD	4	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Objectives: to supply a first contact with the basic notions of commercial portuguese law, namely in the ambit of the industrial property, bill of exchanges and insolvency law.

Program

Summary: Commercial acts and the business men: notion, regimen and statute. Enterprise: notion and elements; sale and hire of an enterprise. Trade signs: specially marks: constitution and regimen. Bill of exchange and cheque: notion and regimen; formal requirements; general characters; expiration, payment and protest; the penal regime of the cheque. The insolvency: requirements, process and effects.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Observations

Bibliography: Abreu, Jorge Manuel Coutinho de, Curso de Direito Comercial, vol. I, 5ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2005; Ascensão, J. Oliveira, Direito Comercial, vol. II, Direito Industrial, Lisboa, 1994; vol. III, Títulos de Crédito, Lisboa, 1992; Cordeiro, António Menezes, Manual de Direito Comercial, Vol. I, Almedina, Coimbra, 2001; Fernandes, Luís Carvalho e João Labareda, Código da insolvência e da recuperação de empresas anotado, vols. 1 e 2, Quid Juris, 2005.