 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1901 - 726 páginas
...in Wild v. Davenport, 19 Vr. 130, is usually defined to be "a voluntary contract between competent persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, upon the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits... | |
 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - 1837 - 614 páginas
...OF EXECUTION AGAINST PARTNERS. SEC. I. WHAT CONSTITUTES A PARTNERSHIP. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of these, in a lawful business, and to divide the profits and bear the loss, either equally, or in certain... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1841 - 662 páginas
...in some other proportion-" Partnership is defined by Kent, 3d vol. Com. 23, 24, to be a contract of two or more persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions. The... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 páginas
...Persons are deemed partners by the law, where they go shares in the profits of any trade, or where they place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some, or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, under an agreement to divide the profit, and bear the loss in certain... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1846 - 796 páginas
...often called copartnership, is usually defined to be a voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding, that there shall be a communion of the profits... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1893 - 776 páginas
...precisely and comprehensively accurate than that of Chancellor Kent : "A contract of two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.1" —... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 páginas
...payment of the debts they may contract. A partnership is an association of two or more persons, uniting "their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business," the profits to be divided, or the losses borne, in the proportions which... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 páginas
...or COPARTNERj SHIP. [Lat. tocietas ; Fr. socielie.] A I contract of two or more competent persons, 1 to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions, i 3... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1854 - 650 páginas
...law applicable to the case, the judgment is sustained by the evidence. The voluntary association of two or more persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in some commerce or business, with the understanding of sharing the profits thereof, constitutes such persons... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 páginas
...OF PARTNERSHIPS AS BETWEEN THE PARTIES. 1. What is a partnership defined to be 1 It is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss, in certain propor tions. —... | |
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A contract of two or more competent persons, to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions. 
