 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1236 pages
...NATURE OF RELATION. A partnership is a contract, express or implied, between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in business, and to divide the profits and bear the losses in certain proportion. [Ed. Note.— For other... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1048 pages
...partnership," says Judge Story, "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. Pothier... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1887 - 780 pages
...Wambersie, 4 Crunch, 73^; Thompson v. Bowman, 6 Wall. 316 ; Hoxie v. Carr, 1 Snmner, 173. Kent says: 'A partnership is a contract of two or more persons to...place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some one or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and share the loss in... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 710 pages
...called a 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 " (Story... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 942 pages
...and not a charter-party. Ward v. '.Thompson, 22 How., 330. g "1. Partnership is a contract between two or more persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some one or all of them, in business, with the understanding that there shall be a community of profits... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1040 pages
...language of still another eminent American author: "A partnership is a contract of two or more competent persons, to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all ot them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profits and bear the loss in certain proportions,"... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1889 - 566 pages
...puhlic; (3.) The dissolution of the contract. (1.) Of the nature, ereation, and extent of partnerships. Partnership is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, effects, lahour, and skill, or some, or all of them, in lawful commerce or husiness, and to divide the profit,... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1890 - 816 pages
...partnership,' says Judge Story, '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 of business, with the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits thereof between... | |
 | Myron Tuthill Bly - Business law - 1891 - 222 pages
...the firm but have no repl interest. Partnership. The relationship resulting from an agreement between two or more persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in some enterprise or business, and divide the profits and bear the losses in certain proportions. Party-Wall.... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1892 - 760 pages
...themselves, a partnership is constituted by a voluntary contract between two or more competent persona, 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 thereof between them. '(a) The... | |
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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 thereof between them. 
