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Terms Used In Alabama Code 10A-9A-9.09

  • FOREIGN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: means a partnership formed under the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state and required by those laws to have one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Alabama Code 10A-9A-1.02
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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

In any derivative action in the right of a foreign limited partnership, the right of a person to commence or maintain a derivative action in the right of a foreign limited partnership, and any matters raised in the action covered by Sections 10A-9A-9.02 through 10A-9A-9.08, shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction under which the foreign limited partnership was formed; except that any matters raised in the action covered by Sections 10A-9A-9.06, 10A-9A-9.07, and 10A-9A-9.08 shall be governed by the law of this state.