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The sixth edition of the authoritative and acclaimed commercial law text 'A great book... will be equally useful to legal practitioners, students and business people' Financial Times This sixth edition of Goode on Commercial Law, now retitled Goode and McKendrick on Commercial Law, remains the first port of call for the modern day practitioner with its theoretical and practical coverage of commercial law in both a national and an international context. Now updated to cover the most recent legal and technical changes, this highly acclaimed and authoritative text, which is regularly cited by all courts from the Supreme Court downwards, combines a deep theoretical analysis of foundational principles with a practical approach in the context of typical commercial and financial transactions. It is also replete with diagrams and specimen forms covering a wide range of transactions. 'Searching analysis and meticulous exposition coupled with a lucid clarity of style and a relaxed lightness of touch combine to make the book not only compulsory but compulsive reading for anyone interested in its field' Law Quarterly Review 'A work of immense scholarship... Professor Goode's work must be as nearly exhaustive as can be possible and as produced by Penguin is a triumph of paperback publishing' Solicitor's Journal 'Clear and comprehensive... The student and practitioner will find it indispensable; the interested layperson too will benefit from it as a work of reference' British Business 'A veritable tour de force' Business Law Review