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LAW OF PARTNERSHIP
A partnership is a for- profit business association for two or more persons Because the business
component is defined broadly by state laws and because "persons" can include individuals, groups of
individuals, companies, and corporations, partnerships are highly adaptable in form and vary in
complexity. Each partner shares directly in the organization's profits and shares control of the business
operation. The consequence of this profit sharing is that partners are jointly and independently liable
for the partnership's debts.
( https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/partnership )
Partnership contracts have been found, by experience, to be convenient to persons engaged in trade,
and useful to the community. Merchants are thereby enabled to consolidate their credit and extend
their business. With the aid of joint counsel and accumulated capital, a spirit of enterprise is sensibly
awakened, and boldness of plan and vigour of exertion communicated to mercantile concerns.
Partnerships have grown with the growth and multiplied with the extension of trade; and the law by
which they are regulated has been improved by the study and adoption of the best usages which the
genius of commerce has introduced. It has also been cultivated and greatly enlarged, under a course
of judicial decisions, until the law of partnership has at last attained the precision of a regular branch
of science and forms a distinguished part of the code of commercial jurisprudence.
( https://lonang.com/library/reference/kent-commentaries-american-law/kent-43/ )