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Nominal partner

Nominal partner, one who has not any actual interest in the trade or business, or its profits; but by allowing his name to be used holds himself out to the world as apparently having an interest. See PARTNERSHIP; HOLDING OUT....


partner

partner : one of two or more persons associated as joint principals in carrying on a business for the purpose of enjoying a joint profit : a member of a partnership ;specif : a partner in a law firm dormant partner : silent partner in this entry general partner : a partner whose liability for partnership debts and obligations is unlimited compare limited partner in this entry lim·it·ed partner : a partner in a venture who has no management authority and whose liability is limited to the amount of his or her investment compare general partner in this entry partner in com·men·dam [-in-kə-men-dəm, -kō-men-dÄ m] in the civil law of Louisiana : limited partner in this entry si·lent partner : a partner who takes no active part in conducting the partnership business but who receives a share of its profits and whose existence is often not made public called also dormant partner ...


Dormant partners

Dormant partners, subject to s. 2, (English) Partner-ship Act, 1890, and the (English) Business Names Registration Act, 1916, those whose names are not known or do not appear as partners, but who nevertheless are silent partners, and partake of the profits, and thereby become partners, either absolutely to all intents and purposes, or at all events in respect to third parties. dormant partners, in strictness of language, mean those who are merely passive in the firm, whether known or unknown, in contradistinction to those who are active and conduct the business of the firm as principals. Unknown partners are properly secret partners: but in common parlance they are usually designated by the appellation of dormant partners. They are held responsible as partners, until retirement, to third parties, although they maynot be so chargeable inter se. consult Lindleyon Partnership. See PARTNERSHIP (LIMITED PARTNERSHIP) and BUSINESS NAMES REGISTRATION ACT, 1916; DISCLOSURE....


Partners of a firm

Partners of a firm, the status of a partner qua the firm with reference to the provisions of the Partnership Act, the concept of 'employer' and 'employee' and the importance of the definition of 'wages' as also various Indian and foreign decisions are clearly indicative of the principle that a partner who belongs to the class of employer cannot rank as employee because he also works for wages for the partnership. In common parlance the status of a partner qua the firm is thus different from em-ployees working under the firm. It may be that a partner is being paid some remuneration for any special attention which he devotes but that would not involve any change of status and bring him within the definition of employee. In a partnership firm, which is not a legal entity, each partner acts as an agent of the other. The position of a partner qua the firm is thus not that of a master and a servant or employer and employee which concept involves an element of subordination but that of equali...


Direct nomination

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention and loosely to the nomination effected as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote...


Partner

Partner, the definition is designed to confer equal benefits upon the minor by treating him as a partner; but it does not render a minor a competent and full partner. For that purpose, the law of Partnership must be considered, apart from the definition in the Income-tax Act, Commissioner of Income Tax v. Darkadas Khetan and Co., AIR 1961 SC 680 (683): (1961) 2 SCR 821....


Relinquishment of interest by partner

Relinquishment of interest by partner, means relin-quishment of interest by a partner by executing a deed of relinquishment in favour of other existing partners of the firm, having both movable and immovable properties, is not necessary, Nariman Aspandiar Irani v. Adi Merwan Irani, 1989 Bom 362....


Nominated authority

Nominated authority, means an officer not below the rank of Station Officer nominated by the Chief Fire Officer, and includes an officer nominated by a local authority or a railway administration as a nominated authority for the purposes of this Act. [Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 1986 (56 of 1986), s. 2(i)] [s. 2(i), Additional Emoluments (Compulsory Deposit) Act]...


Nomination

Nomination, is equivalent to the word 'appointments'. When used by a mayor in an instrument executed for the purpose of appointing certain persons to office, (P. Ramanatha Aiyar's Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., pp. 1310-11) see also Konkan Railway Corpn. Ltd. v. Rani Construction Pvt. Ltd., (2000) 8 SCC 151.Nomination, means (1) the action process or instance of nominating, (2) the act, process or an instrument of nominating; and act or right of designating for an officer or duty....


nominate

nominate [Latin nominatus, past participle of nominare to call by name, from nomin- nomen name] in the civil law of Louisiana : having a special or certain name compare innominate [nÄ -mə-nāt] vt -nat·ed -nat·ing 1 : to appoint or propose for appointment to an office, position, or place [if the testator has nominated an executor of the will] [the President…shall and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors "U.S. Constitution art. II"] 2 : to propose as a candidate for election to office nom·i·na·tion [nÄ -mə-nā-shən] n ...


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