Elements of partnership business agreement

Lawful business: The term business includes all trades, professions or occupations. The
purpose of partnership agreement is to carry on a lawful business and nothing else.

Name of the business: The partnership firm must have its own name. The name in which the
business is carried on is called the firm name.

Association of persons: At least two persons are needed to make a partnership. The Indian
partnership Act is silent about the maximum number of member of members. The Indian
Companies Act provides the maximum number of members as en in case of banking business
and as twenty in other cases.

Profit motive and sharing of profits: Partnership business is formed with the object of earning
profit. The earned profit is to be distributed among the partners as per an agreed ratio.

Contractual relationship: Partnership is a contractual relationship between the persons who are
competent to enter into a contract. Relationship between partners arises from contract and not
from status.

Mutual trust and confidence: The successful working of a partnership depends on

Elements of Partnership Business agreement

Mutual trust and confidence of its partners. Partners have the duty to observe utmost good faith in
business dealings.

Principal-agent relationship: Its not necessary that all the partners should manage the easiness.
Any one or more partners can run the business on behalf of all the partners. Each partner is an
agent of the firm and his activities bind the firm.

Restrictions on transfer of share: No partner can transfer his share in the partnership without
the prior consent of all the other partners. Thus, a partner cannot transfer has interest at his
own will.

Unlimited liability: Partnership is based on the principle of unlimited liability. The personal
property of the partners can be attached to satisfy the claims of creditors of the firm, if the
assets of the firm are insufficient to meet the claims of the creditors.