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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 14 August 1890

Partnership Act 1890 (c. 39)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Nature of partnership. (ss. 1-4)
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 1. Definition of partnership.
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 2. Rules for determining existence of partnership.
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 3. Postponement of rights of person lending or selling in consideration of share of profits in case of insolvency.
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 4. Meaning of firm.
Relations of Partners to persons dealing with them. (ss. 5-18)
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 5. Power of partner to bind the firm.
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 6. Partners bound by acts on behalf of firm.
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 7. Partner using credit of firm for private purposes.
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 8. Effect of notice that firm will not be bound by acts of partner.
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 9. Liability of partners.
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 10. Liability of the firm for wrongs.
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 11. Misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm.
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 12. Liability for wrongs joint and several.
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 13. Improper employment of trust-property for partnership purposes.
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 14. Persons liable by "holding out".
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 15. Admissions and representations of partners.
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 16. Notice to acting partner to be notice to the firm.
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 17.  Liabilities of incoming and outgoing partners.
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 18. Revocation of continuing guaranty by change in firm.
Relations of Partners to one another. (ss. 19-31)
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 19. Variation by consent of terms of partnership.
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 20. Partnership property.
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 21. Property bought with partnership money.
Repealed
 22. Conversion into personal estate of land held as partnership property.
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 23.  Procedure against partnership property for a partner's separate judgment debt.
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 24. Rules as to interests and duties of partners subject to special agreement.
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 25. Expulsion of partner.
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 26. Retirement from partnership at will.
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 27. Where partnership for term is continued over, continuance on old terms presumed.
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 28. Duty of partners to render accounts, &c.
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 29. Accountability of partners for private profits.
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 30. Duty of partner not to compete with firm.
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 31. Rights of assignee of share in partnership.
Dissolution of Partnership, and its consequences. (ss. 32-44)
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 32. Dissolution by expiration or notice.
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 33. Dissolution by bankruptcy, death, or charge.
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 34. Dissolution by illegality of partnership.
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 35. Dissolution by the Court.
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 36. Rights of persons dealing with firm against apparent members of firm.
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 37. Right of partners to notify dissolution.
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 38. Continuing authority of partners for purposes of winding up.
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 39. Rights of partners as to application of partnership property.
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 40. Apportionment of premium where partnership prematurely dissolved.
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 41. Rights where partnership dissolved for fraud or misrepresentation.
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 42. Right of outgoing partner in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution.
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 43. Retiring or deceased partner's share to be a debt.
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 44. Rule for distribution of assets on final settlement of accounts.
Supplemental. (ss. 45-50)
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 45. Definitions of "court" and "business".
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 46. Saying for rules of equity and common law.
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 47. Provision as to bankruptcy in Scotland.
Repealed
 48. Repeal.
Repealed
 49. Commencement of Act.
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 50. Short title.
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 Schedule - Enactments Repealed
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