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/* Here is the full text of the Uniform Partnership Act, together
with our commentary regarding the same. Unless it is absolutely
required for tax advantage, avoid partnership at all costs. The
powers of a rouge partner to bind all of the other partners are
too scary for words. */
UNIFORM PARTNERSHIP ACT
PART I
Section 1. Name of Act. This act may be cited as the Uniform
Partnership Act.
Section 2. Definition of terms. In this Act, "Court" includes
every court and judge having jurisdiction in the case.
"Business" includes every trade, occupation or profession.
"Bankrupt" includes bankruptcy under the Federal Bankruptcy
Act or insolvent under any state insolvent act.
"Conveyance" includes every assignment, lease, mortgage or
encumbrance.
"Real property" includes land and any interest or estate in
land.
Section 3. Interpretation of Knowledge and Notice. (1) A person
has "knowledge" of a fact within the meaning of this Act not only
when he has actual knowledge thereof, but also when he has
knowledge of such other facts as in the circumstances shows bad
faith.
(2) A person has "notice" of a fact within the meaning of
this Act when the person who claims the benefit of the notice:
(a) States the fact to such person, or
(b) Delivers through the mail, or by other manes of
communication, a written statement of the fact to such person or
to a proper person at his place of business or residence.
Section 4. Rules of construction. (1) The rule that statutes in
derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall
have no application under this Act.
(2) The law of estoppel shall apply under this Act.
(3) The law of agency shall apply under this Act.
(4) This Act shall be so interpreted and construed as to
effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those
states which enact it.
(5) This Act shall not be construed so as to impair the
obligations of any contract existing when the Act goes into
effect, nor to affect any action or proceedings begun or right
accrued before this Act takes effect.
Section 5. Rules for Cases Not Provided for in this Act. In any
case not provided for in this Act the rules of law and equity,
including the law merchant, shall govern.
PART II
Nature of a partnership
Section 6. Partnership defined. (1) A partnership is an
association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a
business for profit.
(2) But any association formed under any other statute of
this state, or statute adopted by authority, other than the
authority of this state, is not a partnership under this act,
unless such association would have been a partnership in this
state prior to the adoption of this act; but this act shall apply
to limited partnerships except in so far as the statutes relating
to such partnerships are inconsistent herewith.
Section 7. Rules for determining the existence of a partnership.
In determining whether a partnership exists, these rules shall
apply:
(1) Except as provided by section 16 persons who are not
partners as to each other are not partners as to third persons.
(2) Joint tenancy, tenancy in common, tenancy by the
entireties, joint property, common property, or part ownership
does not of itself establish a partnership, whether such co-
owners do or do not share any profits made by the use of the
property.
(3) The sharing of gross returns does not of itself
establish a partnership, whether or not persons sharing them have
a joint or common right or interest in any property from which
the returns are derived.
(4) The receipt by a person of a share of the profits of a
business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the
business, but no such inference shall be drawn if such profits
were received in payment:
(a) As a debt by installments or otherwise;
(b) As wages of an employee or rent to a landlord;
(c) As an annuity to a widow or representative of a deceased
partner;
(d) As interest on a loan, though the amount of payment
varies with the profits of the business;
(e) As the consideration for the sale of a good-will of a
business or other property by installments or otherwise.
Section 8. Partnership property. (1) All property originally
brought into the partnership stock or subsequently acquired by
purchase or otherwise, on account of the partnership, is
partnership property.
(2) Unless contrary intent appears, property acquired with
partnership funds is partnership property.
(3) Any estate in real property may be acquired in the
partnership name. Title so acquired can be conveyed only in the
partnership name.
(4) A conveyance to a partnership in the partnership name,
though without words of inheritance, passes the entire estate of
the grantor unless a contrary intent appears.
PART III
RELATIONS OF PARTNERS TO PERSONS DEALING WITH THE PARTNERSHIP
Section 9. Partner agent of partnership as to Partnership
Business. (1) Every partner is an agent of the partnership for
the purpose of its business, and the act of every partner,
including the execution in the partnership name of any
instrument, for apparently carrying on in the usual way the
business of the partnership of which he is a member binds the
partnership, unless the partner so acting has in fact no
authority to act for the partnership in the particular matter,
and the person with whom he is dealing has knowledge of the fact
that he has no such authority.
(2) An act of a partner which is not apparently for the
carrying on of the business of the partnership in the usual way
does not bind the partnership unless authorized by the other
partners.
(3) Unless authorized by the other partners or unless they
have abandoned the business, one or more but less than all of the
partners have no authority to:
(a) Assign the partnership property in trust for creditors
or on the assignee's promise to pay the debts of the partnership,
(b) Dispose of the good-will of the business,
(c) Do any other act which would make it impossible to carry
on the ordinary business of a partnership,
(d) Confess a judgment,
(e) Submit a partnership claim or liability in arbitration
or reference.
(4) No act of a partner in contravention of a restriction on
authority shall bind the partnership to persons having knowledge
of the restriction.
Section 10. Conveyance of Real Property of the Partnership. (1)
where title to real property is in the partnership name, any
partner may convey title to such property by a conveyance
executed in the partnership name; but the partnership may recover
such property unless the partner's act binds the partnership
under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Section 9 or unless such
property has been conveyed by the grantee or a person claiming
through such grantee to a holder for value without knowledge that
the partner, in making the conveyance, has exceeded his
authority.
(2) Where title to real property is in the partnership name,
a conveyance executed by a partner, in his own name, passes the
equitable interest of the partnership, provided that the act is
one within the authority of the partner under the provision of
paragraph (1) of section 9.
(3) Where title to real property is in the name of one or
more but not all the partners, and the record does not disclose
the right of the partnership, the partners in whose name the
title stands may convey title to such property, but the
partnership may recover such property if the partner's act does
not bud the partnership under the provisions of paragraph (1) of
section 9, unless the purchaser or his assignee, is a holder for
value, without knowledge.