Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 31 > Chapter 17 > Subchapter 6 - Partner's Dissociation

• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Business: includes every trade, occupation and profession. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 31 Sec. 1001
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to the partner's transferee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 31 Sec. 1001
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• 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.
• 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: 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.
• Partnership: means an association of 2 or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under section 1022, predecessor law or comparable law of another jurisdiction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 31 Sec. 1001
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 31 Sec. 1001
• Property: means all property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible or any interest therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 31 Sec. 1001
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed and encumbrance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 31 Sec. 1001
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.