 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1901 - 726 sider
...Justice Depue, in Wild v. Davenport, 19 Vr. 130, is usually defined to be "a voluntary contract between competent persons to place their money, effects, labor...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... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 536 sider
...partnerships. 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 profit, and bear the loss, in certain proportions." The two leading principles of the contract are,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1836 - 580 sider
...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, and to bear the loss, in certain proportions. It is not the actual perception j of profits, that constitutes... | |
 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - 1837 - 614 sider
...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 sider
...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...in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions. The two leading principles of the contract are a common... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 sider
...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 - 1846 - 796 sider
...^ 2. Partnership, often called copartnership, is usually defined to be a voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money,...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... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 890 sider
...be a voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to place their money, effects, labour, 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. Story on... | |
 | George Spence - 1846 - 708 sider
...a voluntary contract between two or more competent persons to employ their money, effects, labor or skill. or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, with the under(o) Dis. iv. 3. 36. part of the lawes of this realm for the »d(6) "Fraus non est fallere... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1893 - 776 sider
...none of them will be found more precisely and comprehensively accurate than that of Chancellor Kent : "A contract of two or more competent persons to place...in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.1" — 3 Kent's. Com. 23. To constitute the relation... | |
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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. 
