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the partners, title vests in the remaining "partner," although
there is no "transfer" of the property. The remaining "partner"
may execute a deed or other transfer of record in the name of the
non-existent partnership to evidence vesting of the property in
that person's individual capacity.

 
7. UPA Section 10(2) provides that, where title to real
property is in the partnership name, a conveyance by a partner in
his own name transfers the partnership's equitable interest in
the property. It has been omitted as was done in Georgia and
Florida. In this situation, the conveyance is clearly outside
the chain of title and so should not pass title or any interest
in the property. UPA Section 10(2) dilutes, albeit slightly, the
effect of record title and is, therefore, inconsistent with
RUPA's broad policy of fostering reliance on the record.

 
UPA Section 10(4) and (5) have also been omitted. Those
situations are now adequately covered by Section 302(a).

 
§1033.__Partnership liable for partner's actionable conduct

 
1.__Partnership liable for loss, injury or penalty.__A
partnership is liable for loss or injury caused to a person, or
for a penalty incurred, as a result of a wrongful act or
omission, or other actionable conduct, of a partner acting in the
ordinary course of business of the partnership or with authority
of the partnership.

 
2.__Partnership liable for misapplication.__If, in the course
of the partnership's business or while acting with authority of
the partnership, a partner receives or causes the partnership to
receive money or property of a person not a partner, and the
money or property is misapplied by a partner, the partnership is
liable for the loss.

 
Comment

 
(This is Section 305 of the Uniform Partnership Act (1997).)

 
Section 305(a), which is derived from UPA Section 13, imposes
liability on the partnership for the wrongful acts of a partner
acting in the ordinary course of the partnership's business or
otherwise within the partner's authority. The scope of the
section has been expanded by deleting from UPA Section 13, "not
being a partner in the partnership." This is intended to permit
a partner to sue the partnership on a tort or other theory during
the term of the partnership, rather than being limited to the
remedies of dissolution and an accounting. See also Comment 2 to
Section 405.


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