Commercial Law I

Code:

D403 I

Acronym:

DC I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S (since 09-09-2013 to 20-12-2013)

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	155	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.

Learning outcomes and competences

To obtain the basic knowledge on commercial law

Working method

Presencial

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.

Mandatory literature

Abreu Jorge Manuel Coutinho de 1955-; Curso de direito comercial. ISBN: 972-40-1425-8

Comments from the literature

Main book

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and pratical classses

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

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.