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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 11 Sec. 3273

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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 two or more persons to carry on as co-owners a business for profit formed under section 3212 of this title, predecessor law, or comparable law of another jurisdiction and includes for all purposes of the laws of this State a limited liability partnership. See
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See
  • Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.

§ 3273. Right to wind up partnership business

(a) After dissolution, a partner who has not wrongfully dissociated may participate in winding up the partnership‘s business, but on application of any partner, partner’s legal representative, or transferee, the Superior Court, for good cause shown, may order judicial supervision of the winding up. Venue for such a proceeding lies in the county where the partnership’s principal office is or was located.

(b) The legal representative of the last surviving partner may wind up a partnership’s business.

(c) A person winding up a partnership’s business may preserve the partnership business or property as a going concern for a reasonable time, prosecute and defend actions and proceedings, whether civil, criminal, or administrative, settle and close the partnership’s business, dispose of and transfer the partnership’s property, discharge the partnership’s liabilities, distribute the assets of the partnership pursuant to section 3277 of this title, settle disputes by mediation or arbitration, and perform other necessary acts. (Added 1997, No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.)