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Obligations of a partner:
1. To give his contribution
2. Not to convert firm money or property for his own use
3. Not to engage in unfair competition with his own firm
4. To account for and hold as trustee, unauthorized
personal profits
5. Pay for damages caused by his fault
6. Duty to credit to the firm, payment made by a debtor
who owes him and the firm
7. To share with the other partners the share of the
partnership credit which he has received from an
insolvent firm debtor
Rights of a partner:
1. Property rights
a. Right to specific partnership property
b. Interest in the partnership
c. Right to participate in the management
2. Right to associate another person in his share
3. Right to inspect and copy partnership books
4. Right to demand a formal account
5. Right to ask for the dissolution of the firm at the proper
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To contribute
a. No demand is needed to put partner in default,
b. Remedy for non-contribution should be to collect
what is owing, as well as damages
c. Failure to contribute sum of money interest (is
not stipulated, at 6% legal interest) plus damages
To deliver the fruits of what should have been
delivered (those from the time they should have been
delivered)
To warrant
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The firm name may or may not include the name of one or
more of the partners.
Causes of dissolution:
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Partners are solidarily liable (together with the firm) for any
wrongful act or omission of any partner (tort) acting in the
ordinary course of the business of the partnership to a third
person.
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Creditors
Limited partners share in the profits and other
compensation by way of income on their contributions
Limited partners share in capital
General partners claim other than capital and profits
General partners share in the profits
General partners share in capital