LAW NOTES
GENERAL PROVISIONS-PARTNERSHIP
Article 1767
• A contract whereby two or more persons bind themselves to
contribute money, property or industry to a common fund,
with the intention of dividing the profits among themselves.
• Two or more persons may also form a partnership
for the exercise of a profession.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A CONTRACT OF PARTNERSHIP
• Consensual- it is perfected by mere consent, that is, upon the
express or implied agreement of two or more persons;
• Nominate- it has a special name or designation in our law;
• Bilateral- it is entered into by two or more persons and the
rights and obligations arising therefrom are always reciprocal;
• Onerous- each of the parties aspires to procure for himself a
benefit through the giving of something;
• Commutative- the undertaking of each of the partners is
considered as the equivalent of that of the others;
• Principal- it does not depend for its existence or validity upon
some other contracts; and
• Preparatory- it is entered into as a means to an end, i.e., to
engage in business or specific venture for the realization of
profits with the view of dividing them among the contracting
parties. A partnership contract, in its essence, is a contract of
agency. (see Art. 1818.)
ESSENTIAL REQUISITES OF A PARTNERSHIP
• There must be a valid partnership contract.
• There must be a mutual contribution of money, property or
industry to a common fund.
• It must have a lawful object or purpose.
• The partnership must be established for the common benefit
or interest of the partners which is to obtain profits and to
divide the profits among the partners.
FORM SHOULD BE FOLLOWED
General Rule:
• No special form is required for the validity or existence of
the contract of partnership.
Exceptions:
1. Where immovable property or real rights are contributed,
the partnership contract shall be void unless:
• It is reduced to writing in a public instrument (Art. 1771).
• An inventory of the property contributed is made, signed
by the parties and attached to the public instrument.
(Art.1773)
2. Where the contract is by its terms not to be performed within a
year from the making thereof, such partnership contract is
covered by the statute of frauds and thus requires a written
agreement to be enforceable.
3. Where the contract of partnership has a capital of 3,000
pesos or more, in money or property, it shall appear in a
public instrument and must be recorded in the SEC.
Article 1768
• The partnership has a juridical personality separate and
distinct from that of each of the partners, even incase of
failure to comply with the requirements of article1772, first
paragraph. (n

CONSEQUENCES OF BEING A JURIDICAL PERSON
• Can sue and be sued
• Acquire any kind of property
• Insolvency of a partnership does not mean that the
partners themselves are insolvent
PARTNERSHIP AS A JURIDICAL PERSON AND ITS
IMPLICATIONS
• A partnership has a juridical personality which is separate and
distinct from that of the partners.
• A partnership may sue and be sued in its name or by its duly
authorized representatives.
LEGAL ENTITY
• Can enter into contracts, own property, and engage in
legal activities. It has the capacity to sue and be sued in its
own name. This allows the partnership to conduct
business, hold assets, and incur liabilities independently of
its individual partners.
LIMITED LIABILITY
• It can provide limited liability protection to its individual
partners. This means that the personal assets of the
partners are generally protected from the partnership's
debts & obligations.
PERPETUAL EXISTENCE
• Can continue to exist even if there are changes in the
composition of its partners. The death, withdrawal, or
addition of partners does not necessarily result in the
dissolution of the partnership.
TAXATION
• May have its own tax identification number and be subject
to specific tax regulations
LEGAL CAPACITY
• Can engage in various legal transactions, including buying
and selling assets, leasing property, and borrowing money,
without requiring individual partners to act on its behalf.
RULES TO DETERMINE EXISTENCE OF PARTNERSHIP
Article 1769
1. General Rule: Persons who are not partners as to each other
are not partners as to third persons.
Exception: Estoppel
Example:
• If A & B say PUBLICLY that they are not partners, then
according to A1825, if they told C that they are and
Centers into a contract of partnership with them, then A
and B are in a PARTNERSHIP OF ESTOPPEL
2. Co-ownership of a property does not itself establish a
partnership, even though the co-owners share in the profits
derived from the incident of joint ownership.
Example:
• If A & B inherited land from their parents and
subsequently leased the land out for
P50,000/month, then it can be said that they share profits,
but are they ina partnership?
No, they are merely co-owners. The P50,000 profit ismerely
incidental and besides, it was not derived fromBUSINESS
OPERATIONS.
• If they bought the land for P1,000,000 each to build
ahouse but instead opted to sell it for P2,500,000 thenthey
have a profit of P500,000 but are they partners?
No, because even if there was a profit of P500,000, thisis merely
incidental to the sale and not from businessoperations of A&B.
• If the land was instead used to build an apartment thatis
rented out?
Yes, because A & B share profits from RENTING, thiscan be
considered as ordinary business operations.
3. Sharing of gross returns alone does not indicate a
partnership, whether the persons sharing them have a joint or
common right or interest in any property from which the
returns are derived.
Example:
• If a person owns a big tract of land for planting rice and
entered into an agreement with a farmer that they will
divide the harvest, is the farmer partners with the owner of
the land?
No because of the following reasons:
(1) The farmer had no contribution
(2) The farmer has no say in the disposition of the land
(3) The farmer has no say in management
(4) In case of loss, the owner shall carry the entire
burden and the farmer need not pay anything
4. Receipt of share in the profits is a strong presumptive
evidence of partnership.
However, no such inference will be drawn if such profits were
received in payment:
a) As a debt by instalments 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 vary with
the profits of the business; and
e) As the consideration for the sale of a goodwill of a business or
other property by instalments or otherwise
Example:
• A partnership borrowed P50,000 and instead of givingthe
creditor a specific amount to be repaid, they agreedthat
the creditor will receive 1% of the
partnership’sannual gross profit. Is the creditor a partner?
No because the receipt of share in net income happensto be
because of an existing debt
A partnership is a type of business organization created by a contract
entered by two or more persons who contribute their money,
property, and industry to a common fund with the intention of dividing
the profits among themselves.
It has a personality separate and distinct from the partners. It may
acquire and possess all kinds of properties, incur obligations and file
cases in courts or become defendants in cases.
Since a partnership is a consensual contract, it exists from the
moment of the execution of the contract, unless otherwise stipulated
by the partners.
As a general rule, a contract of partnership may be made orally or in
writing, unless the capital of the partnership is P3,000 or more in
which case it must be in a public instrument, or if real property or
rights are contributed, in which case it must be in a public instrument
with an inventory of the property contributed, and in both cases, must
be registered with the SEC.
As to its object, a partnership may either be a universal partnership
of all present property or of all profits, or a particular
partnership. As to duration, a partnership may either be for a fixed
term or particular undertaking or at will.
A partnership is best for a small number of people who know each
other and want to start a business. It is relatively easy to put up, and
having a juridical personality separate and distinct from the partners,
a partnership provides lesser liability as compared to operating as a
sole proprietorship.
A sole proprietorship is a business entity owned by the person
directly managing it whose personal funds co-mingle with the funds
and earnings of the business. In other words, in a sole
proprietorship, the owner and manager are one and the same - the
business is not considered as a separate legal entity and the owner
gets taxed as an individual who derives income from the operations
of his business. Since all the assets of the business are owned by
the proprietor, then all the debts of the business are also his. The
proprietor has unlimited liability - he is fully, solely, and personally
liable for costs, debts, and legal liabilities of the business and must
pay for them even if it means using his personal funds for the
purpose.
Article 1776
• As to its object, a partnership is either universal or
particular.
• As regards to the liability of the partners, a
partnership may be general or limited. (1671a)
TYPES OF PARTNERSHIPS
1. According to object:
• Universal partnership of all present property- All
contributions become part of the partnership fund. Define
in Article 1778.
• Universal partnership of profits- All that the
partners may acquire by their industry or work during
the existence of the partnership and the use of whatever
the partners contributed at the time of the
institution of the contract belong to the partnership.
Defined in Article 1780
• Particular partnership- The object of the partnership is
determinate—its use or fruit, specific undertaking, or the
exercise of a profession or vocation. Defined in Article
1783
2. According to liability:
• General- All partners are liable to the extent of their
separate properties.
• Limited- The limited partners are liable only to
the extent of their personal contributions. In a limited
partnership, the law states that there shall be at least one
general partner.
 3. According to duration:
• Partnership with a fixed term or for a particular
undertaking.
• Partnership at will- One in which no term is specified and
is not formed for any particular undertaking.
4. According to purpose:
• Commercial or trading partnership- One formed for the
transaction of business.
• Professional or non-trading partnership- One
formed for the exercise of profession.
• is not known to be a partner by outside parties
5. According to legality of existence:
• De jure partnership- One which has complied with all the
legal requirements for its establishment.
• De facto partnership- One which has failed to
comply with all the legal requirements for its
establishment.
KINDS OF PARTNERS
UNDER THE CIVIL CODE:
1. General partner- One who is liable to the extent of his
separate property after all the assets of the partnership are
exhausted.
2. Limited partner- One who is liable only to the extent of his
capital contribution.
3. Capitalist partner- One who contributes money or property to
the common fund of the partnership.
4. Industrial partner- One who contributes his knowledge or
personal service to the partnership.
5. Managing partner- One whom the partners has
appointed as manager of the partnership.
6. Liquidating partner- One who is designated to wind up or
settle the affairs of the partnership after dissolution.
7. Dormant partner- One who does not take active part
in the business of the partnership and is not known as a
partner.
8. Silent partner- One who does not take active part
in the business of the partnership though may be known
as a partner.9.
9. Secret partner- One who takes active part in the business but
10. Nominal partner or partner by estoppel- one who is actually
not a partner but who represents himself as one
OTHER CLASSIFICATIONS
1. Ostensible – active, known to the public
2. Secret – active, unknown to the public
3. Silent – inactive, known to the public
4. Dormant – inactive, unknown to the public
5. Original – member at time of organization
6. Incoming – about to become a member
7. Retiring – about to withdraw
RIGHTS OF PARTNERS
• Management and Decision Making
- Each partner has the right to participate in the management
and decion making of the partnership’s affairs
- Every partner, irrespective of the amount of capital
contribution, has an inherent right to take part in the conduct
of business of the firm. Although one may agree not to

participate in the management of the business the right of
participation should be available to each partner.
- Finding the right balance of good decision-making and
management among partners without burdening the project
with a further structure and bureaucracy is essential for
successful operation.
• Profit Sharing
- Partners have the right to share a of the partnership’s profits.
- Every partner, irrespective of the amount of capital
contribution or business expertise, has a right to share equally
profits earned by the firm.
- Except for a share in profits, the law mandates partners to
share the profits and losses equally. Benefits or allowances
must be provided from the firm's profits, and no payment is
deductible. This allocation is shown in the profit and loss
appropriation account.
• Continuity of the Partnership
- Partners have the right to continue business.
- In the case of the General Partner's insolvency, dissolution,
retirement, or removal, the Partnership's business will be
carried on by the Partnership's remaining general partners.
• Acting in Good Faith
- Partners have the right to expect that other partners will act in
good faith.
- The concept of good faith in contract law mandates parties to
negotiate in a reasonable and fair manner. If one party refuses
to negotiate in good faith, the contract may be breached,
perhaps resulting in a loss of benefits or damages.
• Access to Partnership Records
- Partners have the right to access and inspect the
partnership’s books and records.
- Partners have a right to access and inspect the partnership’s
books and records.
- Every partner has a right to free access to all records, books,
and business accounts. Books and records of a partnership a
all files, documents, and papers relating to the Business or
Condition of the Company, including without limitation
financial statements, Tax Returns and related work papers
and letters from accountants, budgets, pricing guidelines,
ledgers, journals, deeds, title policies, minute books, stock
certificates and books, stock transfer ledgers, Contracts,
Licenses, customer lists, computer files and programs,
retrieval programs, operating data and plans and
environmental studies and plans.
RIGHTS OF PARTNERS
Partners in a partnership shall have the following rights:
1. Property rights
Article 1810. The property rights of a partner are:
(1) His rights in specific partnership property;
(2) His interest in the partnership; and
(3) His right to participate in the management” (Article 1810, Civil
Code)
2. Rights in specific partnership property interest in the
partnership
Article 1812- A partner’s interest in the partnership is his share of
the profits and surplus.” (Article 1812, Civil Code)
 3. Rights to participate in the management
Article 1803- When the manner of management has not been
agreed upon, the following rules shall be observed:
(1) All the partners shall be considered agents and whatever any one
of them may do alone shall bind the partnership, without prejudice to
the provisions of article 1801.
(2) None of the partners may, without the consent of the others,
make any important alteration in the immovable property of the
partnership, even if it may be useful to the partnership. But if the
refusal of consent by the other partners is manifestly prejudicial to
the interest of the partnership, the court’s intervention may be
sought.” (Article 1803, Civil Code)
4. Right to associate with another person in his share
Article 1804- Every partner may associate another person with him
in his share, but the associate shall not be admitted into the
partnership without the consent of all the other partners, even if the
partner having an associate should be a manager.” (Article 1804,
Civil Code)
5. Right to inspect and copy partnership books
Article 1805- The partnership books shall be kept, subject to any
agreement between the partners, at the principal place of business
of the partnership, and every partner shall at any reasonable hour
have access to and may inspect and copy any of them.” (Article
1805, Civil Code)
6. Right to demand a formal account
Article 1809. Any partner shall have the right to a formal account as
to partnership affairs:
(1) If he is wrongfully excluded from the partnership business or
possession of its property by his co-partners;
(2) If the right exists under the terms of any agreement;
(3) As provided by article 1807;
(4) Whenever other circumstances render it just and reasonable.”
(Article 1809, Civil Code)
7. Right to ask for the dissolution of the firm at the proper
time
Article 1830. Dissolution is caused:
(1) Without violation of the agreement between the partners:
a) By the termination of the definite term or particular
undertaking specified in the agreement;
b) By the express will of any partner, who must act in good faith,
when no definite term or particular is specified;
c) By the express will of all the partners who have not assigned
their interests or suffered them to be charged for their
separate debts, either before or after the termination of any
specified term or particular undertaking;
d) By the expulsion of any partner from the business bona fide in
accordance with such a power conferred by the agreement
between the partners;
(2) In contravention of the agreement between the partners, where
the circumstances do not permit a dissolution under any other
provision of this article, by the express will of any partner at any time;
(3) By any event which makes it unlawful for the business of the
partnership to be carried on or for the members to carry it on in
partnership;
(4) When a specific thing which a partner had promised to contribute
to the partnership, perishes before the delivery; in any case by the
loss of the thing, when the partner who contributed it having reserved
the ownership thereof, has only transferred to the partnership the
use or enjoyment of the same; but the partnership shall not be
dissolved by the loss of the thing when it occurs after the partnership
has acquired the ownership thereof;
(5) By the death of any partner;
(6) By the insolvency of any partner or of the partnership;
(7) By the civil interdiction of any partner;
(8) By decree of court under the following article.”
Article 1831. On application by or for a partner the court shall
decree a dissolution whenever:
(1) A partner has been declared insane in any judicial proceeding or
is shown to be of unsound mind;
(2) A partner becomes in any other way incapable of performing his
part of the partnership contract;
(3) A partner has been guilty of such conduct as tends to affect
prejudicially the carrying on of the business;
(4) A partner wilfully or persistently commits a breach of the
partnership agreement, or otherwise so conducts himself in matters
relating to the partnership business that it is not reasonably
practicable to carry on the business in partnership with him;
(5) The business of the partnership can only be carried on at a loss;
(6) Other circumstances render a dissolution equitable.
On the application of the purchaser of a partner’s interest under
article 1813 or 1814:
(1) After the termination of the specified term or particular
undertaking;
(2) At any time if the partnership was a partnership at will when the
interest was assigned or when the charging order was issued.
(Article 1830 and 1831, Civil Code)
OBLIGATIONS OF PARTNERS
1. Obligation to give his contribution
Article 1786. Every partner is a debtor of the partnership for
whatever he may have promised to contribute thereto.
He shall also be bound for warranty in case of eviction with regard to
specific and determinate things which he may have contributed to
the partnership, in the same cases and in the same manner as the
vendor is bound with respect to the vendee. He shall also be liable
for the fruits thereof from the time they should have been delivered,
without the need of any demand. (Article 1786, Civil Code)
2. Obligation not to convert money or property of the
partnership for his own use
Article 1788. A partner who has undertaken to contribute a sum of
money and fails to do so becomes a debtor for the interest and
damages from the time he should have complied with his obligation.
The same rule applies to any amount he may have taken from the
partnership coffers, and his liability shall begin from the time he
converted the amount to his own use.” (Article 1788, Civil Code)
 3. Obligation not to engage in unfair competition with his
own firm
Article 1808. The capitalist partners cannot engage for their own
account in any operation which is of the kind of business in which the
partnership is engaged, unless there is a stipulation to the contrary.
Any capitalist partner violating this prohibition shall bring to the
common funds any profits accruing to him from his transactions, and
shall personally bear all the losses.” (Article 1812, Civil Code)
4. Obligation not to account for and hold as trustees
unauthorized personal profits
Article 1807. Every partner must account to the partnership for any
benefit, and hold as trustee for it any profits derived by him without
the consent of the other partners from any transaction connected
with the formation, conduct, or liquidation of the partnership or from
any use by him of its property.” (Article 1807, Civil Code)
5. Obligation to pay for damages caused by his fault
Article 1794. Every partner is responsible to the partnership for
damages suffered by it through his fault, and he cannot compensate
them with the profits and benefits which he may have earned for the
partnership by his industry. However, the courts may equitably
lessen this responsibility if through the partner’s extraordinary efforts
in other activities of the partnership, unusual profits have been
realized.” (Article 1794, Civil Code)
6. Obligation to credit to the firm payment made by a debtor
who owes him and the firm
Article 1792. If a partner authorized to manage collects a
demandable sum which was owed to him in his own name, from a
person who owed the partnership another sum also demandable, the
sum thus collected shall be applied to the two credits in proportion to
their amounts, even though he may have given a receipt for his own
credit only; but should he have given it for the account of the
partnership credit, the amount shall be fully applied to the latter.
The provisions of this article are understood to be without prejudice
to the right granted to the other debtor by article 1252, but only if the
personal credit of the partner should be more onerous to him.”
(Article 1792, Civil Code)
7. Obligation to share with the other partners the share of
the partnership credit which he has received from an
insolvent firm debtor
Article 1793. A partner who has received, in whole or in part, his
share of a partnership credit, when the other partners have not
collected theirs, shall be obliged, if the debtor should thereafter
become insolvent, to bring to the partnership capital what he
received even though he may have given receipt for his share only.”
(Article 1793, Civil Code)
OBLIGATIONS OF PARTNERS
(Maam’s PPT)
• Fiduciary Duty -Partners owe a fiduciary duty to the
partnership and to each other.
• Capital Contribution- Partners are required to make a
contribution of capital or assets
 • Participation in Management- Partners are obligated to industrial partner cannot engage in business for himself, unless
participate in the management and operation of the the partnership expressly permits him to do so.
partnership’s business.
What is the extent of the liability of a partner in a general
• Sharing of Profit and Losses- Partners are obligated to
partnership?
share in the profits and losses of the partnership.
• Business Care and Diligence- Partners are obligated to • Every partner is responsible to the partnership for damages
exercise care and diligence in the conduct of the suffered by it through his fault, and he cannot compensate
• Compliance with Laws them with the profits and benefits which he may have earned
• Contribution in Case of Loss for the partnership by his industry. However, the courts may
equitably lessen his responsibility if through the partner’s
PROPERTY RIGHTS OF PARTNERS extraordinary efforts in other activities of the partnership,
(MAAM’S PPT) unusual profits have been realized.
• Also, all partners, excluding industrial partners, shall be liable
• Ownership of partnership assets pro rata with all their property and after all the partnership
• Use of Partnership Property assets have been exhausted, for the contracts which may be
• Transferring Ownership entered into in the name and for the account of the
• Profit and Losses partnership under its signature and by a person authorized to
• Capital Contribution act for the partnership. However, any partner may enter into a
• Liquidation and Dissolution separate obligation to perform a partnership contract.
• Access to Partnership Records
How should the losses and profits of the partnership be
• Ownership Interest Transfer
distributed?
GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
• The losses and profits shall be distributed in accordance with
• General partnership is one which has no limited partner the partnership agreement. If only the share of each partner
• In general partnership, business partners share unlimited has been agreed upon, the share of each in the losses shall
liability for the debts and obligation of the partnership be in the same proportion.
• A general partner may contribute services, cash, or property • In the absence of such stipulation, the share of each partner
to the partnership in the profits and losses shall be in the proportion to what he
• In a general partnership, business partners share unlimited may have contributed, but the industrial partners shall not be
liability for the debts and obligation of the partnership. This is liable for the losses. As for the profits, the industrial partner
contrary to a limited partnership. shall receive such share as may be just and equitable under
• A general partner in a general partnership may contribute the circumstances. However, if, besides his services, said
cash, property, or service (industrial partner). However, an
 industrial partner has contributed capital, he shall also receive
a share in the profits in proportion to his capital.
• Clearly, among the differences of general and limited
partnership is that in the former, business partners share
unlimited liability for the debts and obligations of the company
while in the latter, some partners will have an unlimited
liability, while others have liability equal only to the amount of
their capital contribution.
• May a person be forbidden from denying that he is a partner?
In other words, may a partner be allowed or permitted to deny
the existence of a partnership? A related article will be posted
in a few days.
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
- A partnership which has one or more general partners and
one or more limited partners.
Requirements for formation
Two or more persons desiring to form a limited partnership must
comply with the following requirements:
1. They must subscribe and swear to a certificate, which
shall state:
a. The name of the partnership, adding thereto the word “limited”.
b. The character of the business.
c. The location of the principal place of business.
d. The name and place of residence of each member, general and
limited partners being respectively designated.
e. The term for which the partnership is to exist.
f. The amount of cash and a description of and the agreed value of
the other property contributed by each limited partner.
g. Additional contributions, if any to be made by each limited partner
and the times at which or events on the happenings of which they
shall be made.
h. The time agreed upon, when the contributions of each limited
partner is to be returned.
i. The share of the profits or the compensation by way of income
which each limited partner shall receive by reason of his contribution.
j. The right, if given, of a limited partner to substitute an assignee or
contributor to his place and the terms and conditions of the
substitution.
k. The right, if given, of the partners to admit additional limited
partner.
l. The right, if given, of one or more of the limited partners to priority
over the other limited partners, as to contributions or as to
compensation by way of income and the nature of such priority.
m. The right, if given, of the remaining general partner or partners to
continue the business on the death, retirement, civil interdiction,
insanity or insolvency of a general partner.
n. The right, if given, of a limited partner to demand and receive
property other than cash in return for his contribution
2. They must file for record the certificate with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
Obligations of a limited partner
1. Not to allow the inclusion of his surname in the
partnership.Exceptions:
 a) It is also the surname of a general partner.
b) The business had been carried on under a name in which his
surname appeared prior to his admission as a limited partner.
2. To be liable as a general partner if he takes part in the control of
the business.
3. To be liable to the partnership for the following:
a) For the difference between his actual contribution and that
stated in the certificate.
b) For any unpaid contribution which he agreed in the certificate
to make in the future at the time and on the conditions stated
in the certificate.
4. To hold as trustee for the partnership in the following:
a) Specific property stated in the certificate as contributed by
him, but which was not contributed.
b) Specific property which has been wrongfully returned to him.
c) Money or property wrongfully paid or conveyed to him on
account of his contribution.
5. To be liable to the partnership after he has rightfully received the
return of his capital contribution, for any sum not in excess of such
return with interest, which is necessary to discharge its liabilities to
all creditors who extended credit or whose claims arose before such
return.
6. Not to receive or hold as collateral any partnership property on
account of his claims for loan granted to or other business
transaction with the partnership.
7. Not to receive from a general partner or the partnership on
account of such claims any payment, conveyance or release from
liability. If at the time the assets of the partnership are not sufficient to
discharge partnership liabilities to persons not claimingas general or
limited partners.
RIGHTS OF A LIMITED PARTNER
a) To have the partnership books kept at the principal place of
business of the partnership.
b) To inspect and copy the partnership books or any of them at a
reasonable hour.
c) To have on demand true and full information of all things
affecting the partnership.
d) To have on demand a formal account of partnership affairs
whenever circumstances render it just and equitable.
e) To have dissolution and winding up by decree of court.
f) To receive a share in the profits or other compensation by way
of income stipulated in the certificates.
g) To receive the return of his contribution provided partnership
assets exceed the liabilities.
h) To loan money to the partnership.
i) To transact business with the partnership.
j) To receive, unless he is also a general partner, on account of
resulting claims against the partnership, with general
creditors, a pro rata share of the asset.
k) To agree with other limited partners that one or more of them
shall have priority over other limited partners as to:
• Return of their contribution
• Compensation by way of income
• Any other matter
ASSIGNMENT OF LIMITED PARTNER’S INTEREST
Rule: A limited partner’s interest is assignable.
Effect of assignment- The assignee does not become a substituted
limited partner
 1. The assignee is only entitled to receive the following to which
the assignor partner would otherwise be entitled:
• Share of the profits
• Other compensation by way of income
• Return of the contribution
2. He has no right to:
• Require the information or account of partnership
transactions.
• Inspect partnership books
SUBSTITUTED LIMITED PARTNER
-is a person admitted to all the rights of a limited partner who has
died or has assigned his interest in the partnership.
• Requisites in order that assignee may become a substituted
limited partner
a) All the members of the partnership must consent to the assignee
becoming a substituted limited partner, unless the assignor is
empowered by the certificate to give the assignee such right.
b) The certificate must be amended to reflect the substitution.
c) The certificate must be registered with the SEC.
• Rights and liabilities of the substituted limited partner
-He has all the rights and powers, and is subject to all restrictions
and liabilities of the assignor, except those liabilities of which he is
ignorant at the time he became a limited partner and which could not
be ascertained from the certificate.
• Liabilities of the assignor
-The substitution of the assignee as a limited partner does not
release the assignor from the following liability:
1) To persons who rely on a false statement in the certificate
2) To creditors who extended credit or whose claims arose before the
assignment.
RETIREMENT, DEATH, CIVIL INTERDICTION, INSANITY, OR
INSOLVENCY OF A PARTNER
• Effect
a) Partner is a general partner – partnership is dissolved.
b) Partner is a limited partner – partnership is not dissolved except if
there is no more limited partner because in such a case, the
requirement that there must be at least one limited partner in a
limited partnership is no longer complied with.
• Continuation of business-The business may be continued
by the remaining general partners if:
1. The right to do so is stated in the certificate; or
2. All members consent.
ORDER OF PAYMENT OF LIABILITIES
-the liabilities of the partnership shall be entitled to payment in the
following order:
1. Those to creditors, including limited partners, in the order of
priority as provided by law10
2. Those to limited partners by way of their share of the profits
and other compensation by way of income on their
contributions.
3. Those to limited partners in respect to the capital of their
contributions.
4. Those to general partners other than for capital and profits.
5. Those to general partners in respect to profits.
6. Those to general partners in respect to capital.
 partnership that has invested in companies such as Arby’s,
Jamba Juice, Sonic, Maaco and Meineke.
STATE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AMENDMENT OR
• There have been cases where a limited partner has
CANCELLATION OF A CERTIFICATE
unintentionally given up his limited liability status by being
a) The amendment or cancellation must be in writing; involved in the organization’s management. This
b) It must be signed and sworn to by all the members, including determination can be made by a court if a lawsuit is filed
the new members, and the assigning limited partner in case of alleging that the limited partner has participated in the day-to-
substitution or addition of a limited or general partner; and day activities.
c) The certificate, as amended, must be filed for record in the • It is important to note that the General Partner’s name and
Securities and Exchange Commission. address are listed on the Certificate of Limited Partnership
that is filed with the state, making the General Partner public
GENERAL PARTNERSHIP VS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
information. The General Partner is often an LLC, but there
• Limited partnerships will have at least one general partner to are times when we have seen clients choose to list a person
man the day-to-day operations of the business. A general as the General Partner.
partner may invest money into the company. However, a
general partner may also be personally liable for the debts of
the company, while the limited partner is not. Only a general
partner’s personal assets (in addition to the business assets)
can come into play when it comes to paying off the company’s
debts.
• A common purpose of a limited partnership -- vs a general
partnership -- is for real estate. There may be several limited
partners for the purpose of contributing funds to purchase the
real estate, as long as there is at least one general partner.
The benefit of being a limited partner vs a general partner is
that your liability is limited, while the downside is that a limited
partner will not have the decision-making powers that a
general partner has.
• Similarly, limited partnerships are an extremely popular choice
for private equity firms, which purchase privately-owned
companies in the hopes of increasing their value. Often, the
private equity company’s name is not particularly well-known
compared to the companies it invests in. For example, the
Roark Capital Group is a large private equity firm and limited