| James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1828 - 432 pages
...(3.) th'e dissolution of the contract. (1.) Of the. nctttlre^ creation, and extent of partnerships. Partnership 'is a contract of two or more persons, to place their, money, effects, labour and skill, or some, or all of theqiv in.' 'lawful commerce or business, and to divide the.firrffjt,... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 726 pages
...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...some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, upon the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits thereof between them." In the... | |
| Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...his hands to be worked up into a garment. But he cannot hold them for any debt previously contracted. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, labor or skill, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit, and bear the loss, in certain... | |
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 580 pages
...if a partnership once existed, there was a virtual dissolution of it before the debt was contracted. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons to place their money, effects, labour, and skill, or some, or all of them, ' in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profits,... | |
| Andrew White Young - Political Science - 1836 - 334 pages
...hands to be worked up into a garment. But he cannot hold it for any debt previously contracted. 602. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, labor or skill, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit, and bear the loss, in certain... | |
| Joseph Rockwell Swan - Constables - 1837 - 614 pages
...AGAINST PARTNERS. VI. OF WRITS OF EXECUTION AGAINST PARTNERS. SEC. I. WHAT CONSTITUTES A PARTNERSHIP. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons,...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 662 pages
...Chancellor KENT in the 3d vol. of his Commentaries, pages 23 and 24, has defined a " partnership to be a contract of two or more persons to place their money, effects, labor or skill, or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear... | |
| Andrew White Young - Economics - 1840 - 348 pages
...hands to be worked up into a garment. But he cannot hold it for any debt previously contracted. ยง 669. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, labor, or skill, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit, and bear the loss, in certain... | |
| Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 590 pages
...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 proportions, whether they are... | |
| Joseph Story - Partnership - 1846 - 796 pages
...often called copartnership, is usually defined to be a voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and...some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the understanding, that there shall be a communion of the profits thereof between them.2 PufTendorf... | |
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