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Home   |   Administration   |   Office Staff   |   Counselors   |   Departments   |   Boosters   |   Technology Main   >   Houston County Schools   >   WRHS   >   Teachers   >   jfolse Course Description Course Goals • Understanding substantive business and personal law. • Understanding legal procedures and the range of legal remedies. • Understanding the sources and methods of legal research. • Doing precise legal languages. • Analyze and summarizing complex legal situations. • Applying principles to legal situations. • Formulating an argument based on facts and principles. • Expressing facts, principle, and arguments in writing. Understanding Business and Personal Law Topics Unit 1: Knowing about the Law Ethics and Law The Court System Criminal Law Law of Torts Unit 2: Entering into Contacts How Contacts Arise Genuine Agreement Contractual Capacity Consideration Legality Form of a Contact How Contacts Come to an End Transfer of Contracts and Remedies for Breach Unit 3: Being an Agent and Getting a job Creation of an Agency Agency Relationships and Their Termination Employment Law Employment Protection and Equal Opportunity Unit 4: Being a Consumer Contracts for the Sale of Goods Consumer Protection Buying and Insuring a Car Personal Property and Bailment Carriers and Hotelkeepers Unit 5: Planning for the future Marriage formalities and restrictions Divorce and its legal consequences Renting a place to live Buying a home Insurance Protection Unit 6: Using your purchasing power Borrowing money and buying on credit Writing checks Unit 8: Looking toward later life Retirement income and health care Will and intestacy Webmaster   |   Home   |   School Calendar   |   Superintendent   |   High Schools   |   Middle Schools   |   Elementary Schools