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The Personification Of The Partnership, Harwell Wells
The Personification Of The Partnership, Harwell Wells
Vanderbilt Law Review
What does it mean to say a business association is a legal person? The question has shadowed the law of business organizations for at least two centuries. When we say a business is a legal person we may be claiming that the law distinguishes its assets, liabilities, and obligations from those of its owners; or that it has a “real will” and personality apart from its owners; or that it in some way can carry or assert rights generally ascribed to natural persons. This Article sheds new light on these old questions by looking at an oft-overlooked business form, the …
Changing A Partnership Into A Corporation, Daniel J. Gifford
Changing A Partnership Into A Corporation, Daniel J. Gifford
Vanderbilt Law Review
The present essay will deal only with those businesses which possess unlimited growth potential in respect of the amount of assets which they can profitably employ in the production of income. If such businesses grow sufficiently, they will probably ultimately reach the stage of publicly held corporations. The reasons for this will vary, although it would seem that once the growth process has picked up momentum, the business may require capital at a rate faster than earnings can be accumulated or funds can be obtained from lenders.
Business Associations -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, F. Hodge O'Neal
Business Associations -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, F. Hodge O'Neal
Vanderbilt Law Review
Surprisingly few cases were decided in the field of Business Associations during the survey period. Those decisions for the most part merely reaffirmed legal principles already established in Tennessee law. One of the cases, Wyatt v. Brown,' raised again the interesting old question of what is a partnership and what factual elements are necessary to constitute the partnership relation. This article discusses that question first and then comments rather briefly on the other cases and the principles they enunciate.