As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms mean:

(1) BUSINESS includes every trade, occupation, and profession for profit.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 10A-8A-1.02

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership that has filed a statement of limited liability partnership under Section 10A-8A-10. See Alabama Code 10A-8A-1.02
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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 a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(2) DISQUALIFIED PERSON means any person who is not a qualified person.
(3) DISTRIBUTION except as otherwise provided in Section 10A-8A-4.09(f), means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to another person on account of a transferable interest.
(4) FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP means a foreign partnership whose partners have limited liability for the debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the foreign partnership under a provision similar to Section 10A-8A-3.06(c).
(5) FOREIGN PARTNERSHIP means a partnership governed by the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state which would be a partnership if governed by the laws of this state. The term includes a foreign limited liability partnership.
(6) LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP, except in the phrase “foreign limited liability partnership”, means a partnership that has filed a statement of limited liability partnership under Section 10A-8A-10.01, and does not have a similar statement in effect in any other jurisdiction.
(7) NOT FOR PROFIT ACTIVITY includes every undertaking not for profit.
(8) PARTNER means a person that:

(A) has become a partner in a partnership under Section 10A-8A-4.02 or was a partner in a partnership when the partnership became subject to this chapter; and
(B) has not dissociated as a partner under Section 10A-8A-6.01.
(9) PARTNERSHIP means an entity that is formed under this chapter or that is governed by this chapter. The term includes, for all purposes of the laws of this state, a limited liability partnership.
(10) PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT means any agreement (whether referred to as a partnership agreement or otherwise), written, oral or implied, of the partners as to the business or not for profit activity of a partnership. The partnership agreement includes any amendments to the partnership agreement.
(11) PARTNERSHIP AT WILL means a partnership in which the partners have not agreed to remain partners until the expiration of a definite term or the completion of a particular undertaking.
(12) PERSON DISSOCIATED AS A PARTNER means a person dissociated as a partner of a partnership.
(13) QUALIFIED PERSON, with respect to a partnership rendering professional services in this state, means a person authorized by this state or a regulatory authority of this state to own a transferable interest in that partnership.
(14) REQUIRED INFORMATION means the information that a partnership is required to maintain under Section 10A-8A-1.11.
(15) STATEMENT means a statement of partnership under Section 10A-8A-2.02, a statement of not for profit partnership under Section 10A-8A-2.02, a statement of authority under Section 10A-8A-3.03, a statement of denial under Section 10A-8A-3.04, a statement of dissociation under Section 10A-8A-7.04, a statement of dissolution under Section 10A-8A-8.02 or under Section 10A-8A-8.03, a certificate of reinstatement under Section 10A-8A-8.11, a statement of limited liability partnership under Section 10A-8A-10.01, a statement of cancellation under Section 10A-8A-10.01, or any other document required or permitted to be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing under this chapter, or an amendment or cancellation of any of the foregoing.
(16) TRANSFER means an assignment, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, or transfer by operation of law.
(17) TRANSFERABLE INTEREST means a partner’s right to receive distributions from a partnership.
(18) TRANSFEREE means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a partner.
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