Terms Used In Tennessee Code 61-1-705

  • Business: means every trade, occupation, and profession and any other activity, including the holding or ownership of property, entered into for profit. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Partnership: means an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business or other undertaking for profit formed under §. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
  • 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.

Continued use of a partnership name, or a dissociated partner’s name as a part of the partnership name, by partners continuing the business does not of itself make the dissociated partner liable for an obligation of the partners or the partnership continuing the business.