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Fundamentals of corporate law and governance

Commercial law is the body of law that covers the rights, relations, and conduct of individuals and businesses.

Commercial law is the body of law that covers the rights, relations, and conduct of individuals and businesses. Commercial law incorporates the common law and statutory principles relating to commercial transactions, including the sales of goods, e-commerce, agency, and insurance.

It also covers the corporations law, partnerships, bankruptcy, and other related areas of law. Why is law important? The law has many functions in modern society. Some of the major ones are determining standards, sustaining order, setting disputes, protecting rights.

The laws may serve more than one principal function. And there are many more functions than these four. Corporate governance. Corporate governance can be defined as a system of structures, rights, duties, and obligations by which corporations are directed and managed.

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