Maryland Code, COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 5-420
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- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
(a) In this section, “partnership” has the meaning stated in § 9A-101 of the Corporations and Associations Article.
(b) A person who is admitted as a partner into an existing partnership is liable for all the obligations of the partnership arising before the person’s admission as though the person had been a partner when the obligations were incurred, except that this liability shall be satisfied only out of the property of the partnership.