 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1901 - 726 էջ
...Davenport, 19 Vr. 130, is usually defined to be "a voluntary contract between competent persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, upon the understanding that there shall be a communion of the profits... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1841 - 662 էջ
...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 skill, or some or all of them in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 էջ
...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1846 - 796 էջ
...copartnership, 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 or business, with the understanding, that there shall be a communion of the profits... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1893 - 776 էջ
...comprehensively accurate than that of Chancellor Kent : "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.1"... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1848 - 480 էջ
...I. Nature and requisites of partnership. PARTNERSHIP is a contract of two or more persons, to place their money, effects, labor, and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce and business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 էջ
...COPARTNERj SHIP. [Lat. tocietas ; Fr. socielie.] A I contract of two or more competent persons, 1 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,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1854 - 650 էջ
...the judgment is sustained by the evidence. The voluntary association of two or more persons to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in some commerce or business, with the understanding of sharing the profits thereof, constitutes such... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1890 - 784 էջ
...consequent upon that relation. A partnership is 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.... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 էջ
...PARTIES. 1. What is a partnership defined to be 1 It is a contract of two or more 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 propor tions.... | |
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... 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. 
