Instructions

     These materials are grouped in libraries rather than in chapters, enabling both teacher and student to custom design study of the materials. The libraries are: Commentary, Problems, Cases, Statutes and Regulations, Sample Documents, and Glossary.  To view some of the sample documents you will need free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. 

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     A topical template (named California Template in the original but possibly renamed by your instructor) provides the default launching points into the libraries.  It provides one possible structure for study, a structure that may well have been customized by the instructor through addition to, deletion from, or reorganization of an original template.  If your browser is Internet Explorer, you may expand or contract the template and its subtopics by clicking on a topic heading.  This feature is not currently supported (and generates a Java script error) if your browser is Netscape. 

     "Libraries" provides an alternative set of launching points.  By choosing "Libraries" you may go directly to the specific libraries of materials.  In choosing either the Problem or the Commentary libraries, you may review the materials either by selecting from an alphabetical list or by pursuing a sequence that corresponds to the topical sequence presented in the template. 

     The "News" feature, accessible from the opening screen, enables you to check on recent developments (cases, statutes, regulations, proposals, events, or stories) posted on Professor Neustadter's electronic reserve page for Secured Debt at the Santa Clara University School of Law Library.  The opening screen also enables you to e-mail the authors, participate in threaded discussion on line, or pursue selected links to general commercial and bankruptcy law web sites and other sites of interest to law students and lawyers.

     You may turn frames off and view the material in a single frame.  However, if you do so a hypertext link may open an entirely new frame, obscuring the frame you were viewing, and you will need to minimize or close the new frame to return to the frame that you were viewing.  If you leave frames on, hypertext links will generally display new information in other frames within the same window, leaving the main frame visible at the same time.